Full text of "Brigham Young University : 1,000 views of 100 years"

See other formats

. - ■- ' -V .<*4032*':%

..jg&eM&b :%0C- : #r %

}/' -■ wA

■ ' - -*» -j(f '““

S^C stx'j- fJ^T^ A * , v y., ■ • s-u:'^’'.

««iag»$S7g -:■>• --■-v;'-,-':^ ,

"" '■**

«-■• _ ■■■;„. . .. ••..»•<'#•• : r

sfflMpfiW®***-* T*-*^** - • '

flft*.*- ■ ' •-• '-^^rTT^

'~~L~ -__ v _• -*•.,* .-- >- •'- -•; >- • — ~— **- - »•**

^mar ^JKarnjn

A. L. Bancroft & Co., Lithographers. San Francisco, Cai.

Methodist Meeting House
duffs Hall.

Provo Cafion.

Rock “

Slate “

Slide

OLEN FACT

library

Brigham Young University
Americana Collection
Quarto
LD
571
. B672
B87

UPP

Brigham Young University

1,000
VIEWS OF
lOO
YEARS

Digitized by the Internet Archive

in 2016

https://archive.org/details/brighamyoungunivOObutt

q>*cAo

57/

Brigham Young University

1,000
VIEWS OF
lOO
YEARS

Edwin Butterworth, Jr.

CENTENNIAL

BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY

Published on the occasion
of the Centennial
of Brigham Young University

Brigham Young University Press

1975 Brigham Young University Centennial Center. All rights reserved
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602
Printed in the United States of America

75 5M 10714

Contents

vii Foreword

ix Preface and Acknowledgments
xi Introduction
1 The Beginnings to 1876
13 The Spiritual Architect 1876-1892
29 Widening Horizons 1892-1903
51 Period of Progress 1904-1921
95 Maturity and Recognition 1921-1945
171 A Time of Transition 1945-1949
197 The Great Expansion 1951-1971
301 Thrust toward Excellence 1971-
347 Index

Foreword

A Centennial celebration invites us to light birthday candles in honor of those
whose cake we eat. And we, who harvest where we have not sown, rightly pause
to meet as well as to thank our fathers. Their seedling is now grown into a mag-
nificent and fruitful tree. It is especially fitting that one whose personal experience
spans the past quarter of a century of that growth should conduct us on this visual
tour, especially when his eyewitness account is implemented by a lifetime career of
writing about the very events and people pictured before us.

That person is Edwin Butterworth, Jr., a former newspaper man who was brought
to the Brigham Young University campus by President Howard McDonald to be-
come one-third of a fledgling journalism faculty. He came when a flood of GTs
returning from World War II threatened to engulf the University. Having served
professionally on the Salt Lake Telegram, the Salt Lake Tribune, and the Deseret
News, and having distinguished himself as a serious student of the writer's craft,
brother "Ed," as he was and is affectionately known, soon found himself doing two
people's work — that of teacher and that of news reporter for the entire University.

Under President Wilkinson he was assigned full time to man, manage, and ex-
pedite the BYU News Bureau. In that post his sixth sense of spotting newsworthy
stories plus his scholarly hunger for permanent meaning led him to collect not
only thousands of files of what happened as it happened, and of who made it
happen, but also the negatives and pictures of how it happened. It is this rich
legacy of interest, skill, and source materials that the author of this volume brings
to his readers. In so doing, he continues his lifetime practice of not only carrying
forward his crowded daily assignments but also preparing a manuscript during his
"spare time."

Amid the vortex of industry our author has not only created this volume but has
guided our Centennial staff in selecting pictures for its mural-size Walk of the
Century exhibit and theme displays at the Marriott Center. He has also served as
a living source book of factual data to assist our construction of three time-line
summaries of historical highlights in that exhibit. To further aid our assembling of
Centennial background information, he has also dipped into the vast files of ma-
terials he has written for the University and its officials.

Now we can leisurely enjoy 1,000 Views of 100 Years as seen through the eyes
and guided by the pen of Ed Butterworth. As we respond to the exciting moments
and linger with the tender memories of these fruitful years, we thank Ed for his
prescient instincts — for seeing, saving, and sharing — that we might savor a
visual feast of a glorious past.

Lor in F. Wheelwright

Centennial Director and

Dean Emeritus, College of Fine Arts and Communications

vii

April 26, 1975

Preface

Those associated with the establishment of Brigham Young University all have
passed from the scene; those familiar with its early development are few, and the
memories of those involved in its later progress are faulty. Yet photographs remain
to preserve the record and the feeling of a century that was and never will be again.
Although pictures cannot describe in detail the many events and ideas, they cap-
ture forever moments of time, giving substance to the imagination, providing an
accurate view of people in their milieux, and imparting, through the frankness of
the lens, a message of reality and integrity that words can never capture.

A great sense of indebtedness overwhelms the compiler of a pictorial record as
he contemplates the work of photographers of decades past who may or may not
have been conscious that they were preserving history but who had the desire to
take pictures. We are aware that the creators of some photographs were pictorial
journalists, possessing a sense of history, who recorded those events with the best
means at hand as a legacy for those who were to follow. Using many cameras,
focusing on many persons in an infinite number of compositions, they took pictures
for posterity as if to say to us: “This is what we did. This is how we looked. This
is how it was. This is what happened. Remember us!"

Most of the University's history cannot be visualized. The development of
philosophies, the growth of administrative processes, the negotiations for financing,
the creative thought, the reach for ideas — all of these take place in the invisible
processes of the mind. The detail of this history has been recorded by others in
comprehensive volumes. This book, however, is intended to present the history in a
more quickly assimilated form through pictures, augmenting those other works
through nostalgia and visual understanding of the people and their times as only
pictures can do. Some of the photographs were selected because they record an
obviously historical event, others because they are rich in the flavor of their times
and have the power to create an image of the past, and still others because they
complete the record.

Pictures not only document events; they arouse feelings of empathy. Who are
the students in the old uniforms? What are the professors talking about? What
has become of them all? How was life then? The reader may be intrigued or
amused by the quaintness of the dress or customs or environment, yet he is at the
same time conscious that to the subjects at that point in time it was all throbbingly
real and deadly serious. The emotions, the needs, the desires, the struggles of the
people in the pictures were little different from those of today. The sensitive and
contemplative reader will feel heartache for the stunned students viewing the ruins
of their burned school, pride for the early athletes in their homemade uniforms dis-
playing their prowess at the rickety old grandstand, admiration for the band mem-
bers looking like an emperor's personal guard in their resplendent uniforms, affec-
tion for the pretty girl graduates in their long, white dresses, and veneration not
only for the burdened faculty at the old warehouse but for their devoted successors
as well.

Thousands of photographs were reviewed for this volume. Understandably, they
were scarce for the early years of the institution, becoming more abundant as time
progressed. Great numbers of them were not suitable for publication, and other
thousands with great value had to be left out by a process of agonizing decision as
to the best representation for the space allowed. Some may feel that there are too
many groups, and some may feel there is too much emphasis on physical environ-
ment. But groups were the subjects of early photographers, and physical plant
changes mark the progress of the school while providing convenient time seg-
ments. We hope the pages contain something nostalgic, inspiring, and significant
to a wide variety of tastes, for we attempted to provide a wide range of university
concerns: buildings going up or coming down, commencements, homecomings,
classroom scenes, student antics, parades, faculty doings, groundbreakings, dedi-
cations, sports scenes, dramas, concerts, and many others typical of the University.

A strict chronological arrangement was not possible in all cases, but photographs
are presented in their time period or sometimes with related earlier or later events
where the connection is necessary to complete an idea. Indeed, many were not
dated or otherwise identified and were placed only after considerable detective
work. To some extent it is convenient to organize a history in divisions represent-
ing university presidents and their administrations. But a university is a big enter-
prise, and supporting each president are dedicated deans, chairmen, faculty mem-
bers, business officers, students, and staff. Obviously, in a single picture book it is
impossible to include them all, and the pictures must be limited to a representation.

One hundred years is a long time, and many people cross the stage. We can
never repay the dedication, sacrifice, struggle, and generosity of thousands; we can
only remember in grateful tribute. All of that first one hundred years is but a pre-
lude to the future. Brigham Young University enters its second century of service
with hard-won foundations, ideals which have been proven over decades, fine
traditions, lofty standards, and determination to continue in the next century the
commitment enunciated in its Centennial slogan: "Dedicated to Love of God,
Pursuit of Truth, Service to Mankind."

— Edwin Butterworth, Jr.

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgment is gratefully given to those who provided valuable assistance
or suggestions or who generously allowed the author to use pictures from their
precious collections. Special thanks are extended to Hollis Scott, archivist of the
Harold B. Lee Library, for his interest in the work, loan of University collections,
verification of many facts, and helpful suggestions; to Dr. Mark K. Allen, Dr.
Albert D. Swensen, Clarence Taylor, Fred L. Markham, Homer Wakefield, and
Lynn Wakefield for sharing their family photograph collections; to Ronald G. Hyde
and Norma King of the BYU Alumni Association Office, Chad Flake in Special
Collections of the Harold B. Lee Library, the BYU Public Communications Depart-
ment (News Bureau), the Utah State Historical Society, and M. Ephraim Hatch of
the Physical Plant Department for the use of pictures and negatives from their files;
to Dr. Wayne B. Hales, a faithful photographer of the campus scene during several
decades; to Floyd Brereton for making available the collection of negatives pre-
served by his grandfather, Joseph B. Walton; to John Blake, who provided memen-
tos of his aunt, Elizabeth Maiben Magleby; to photographer Doug Martin; to the
Y News, Daily Universe, Banyan, and BYU Photo Studio. To President Dallin H.
Oaks for the assignment to produce the pictorial history; to Dr. Lorin F. Wheel-
wright, assistant to the president in charge of the Centennial celebration, for his
counsel and capable management of numerous arrangements necessary for the
project; to the editor, Louise Hanson, and layout artist, Robert Milberg, at the
Brigham Young University Press for their long and talented efforts in preparing a
finished product; and to the careful work of the Printing Service.

While the great volume of information was obtained from University Archives
and from News Bureau files built up by the author over twenty-five years, he ac-
knowledges his gratitude to Dr. Ernest L. Wilkinson, editor and director of the
Centennial History project, and his staff for allowing him to read the first half
of the manuscript for the three-volume history, giving him valuable perspective
and insight. Roy Bird, editor-manager for the three-volume work in the University
Press, read the pictorial history for accuracy and supplied many helpful suggestions.

Introduction

On October 16, 1875, twenty years before Utah became a state, a deed of trust
establishing the Brigham Young Academy in Provo, Utah, was signed by Brigham
Young, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and spiritual
and temporal leader of the religious people he had directed in the colonization of a
a vast region of the West. After 100 years, that frontier school, founded only
twenty-six years after the first precarious construction of log cabins in Utah Valley,
is now Brigham Young University, an institution of world importance and the
largest church-related university in the United States.

That transformation is remarkable, but it is a wonder that the school survived at
all. Brigham Young died on August 29, 1877, less than two years after the found-
ing of the school, leaving it inadequately endowed and handicapped with a burden-
some trustee organization. When he became ill, deeds for the conveyance of
$40,000 in property were taken to his room by his secretary, George Reynolds, for
his signature, but they were never signed. The Academy became dependent almost
entirely upon tuitions for its maintenance, but they were not enough. Efforts were
made to obtain help from the Church, but it, too, was in financial trouble. The
original deed of trust stated that any action by the trustees of the school was sub-
ject to the approval of Brigham Young or his heirs. After his death it was virtually
impossible to assemble the many heirs for any business, and until 1890, when a
new organization was effected, business of the school was shackled.

When fire destroyed its only building in 1884, the school was forced to operate
in temporary quarters for many years. On several occasions it came close to
abandonment by the trustees because of lack of funds and was rescued only by the
will and sacrifices of the faculty and local leaders. Principal Karl G. Maeser and
his staff taught for meager salaries, paid irregularly or not at all, or for anything
they could get (sometimes produce gathered in wheelbarrows at the homes of their
students) rather than see the school close. Abraham O. Smoot, chairman of the
board, died in 1895 deeply in debt, having devoted his personal fortune to the
continuance of the school. The founding and survival of the Academy was pos-
sible and became a reality only through the vision and sacrifice of such men as
Principals Warren Dusenberry, Karl G. Maeser, and Benjamin Cluff, Jr., as well
as the faithful members of the Board of Trustees, such as Abraham O. Smoot,
Harvey Cluff, Wilson Dusenberry, and others. And credit for transforming the
Academy from its hesitant start to an important university must go to succeeding
presidents of the University: George H. Brimhall, Franklin S. Harris, Howard S.
McDonald, Ernest L. Wilkinson, and Dallin H. Oaks.

The establishment of an academy in 1875 in Provo, a frontier town of 3,000
inhabitants (most of whom could barely provide for themselves the necessities of
life), before there were any public grade schools or high schools and in the face of
governmental and sectarian opposition was an act of faith and is evidence of the
Latter-day Saints' intense commitment to education. Practically an article of faith
in Mormon doctrine and practice, education is a fundamental principle based on
modern revelation, as set forth in the Doctrine and Covenants:

"The glory of God is intelligence, or, in other words, light and truth" (D&C 93:36).

"Whatever principle of intelligence we attain unto in this life, it will rise with us
in the resurrection. And if a person gains more knowledge and intelligence in this
life through his diligence . . . , he will have so much the advantage in the world to
come" (D&C 130:18-19).

"It is impossible for a man to be saved in ignorance" (D&C 131:6).

In the History of the Church (4:588) Joseph Smith is quoted: "A man is saved
no faster than he gets knowledge."

With such revelation actually placing knowledge and its intelligent application
at the foundation of salvation, it is understandable that the Mormon people have
accepted heavy sacrifices to make sure their children are educated. Consequently,

schools are mentioned frequently in Church history before Brigham Young Acad-
emy was founded. In 1832 the School of the Prophets was established in Kirtland,
Ohio, by revelation for "instruction in all things that are expedient for . . . those
who are called to the ministry" (D&C 88:127). And as the Saints suffered per-
secution and moved to various locations to establish new communities, schools
were established in Kirtland, Ohio; Independence, Missouri; Far West, Missouri;
Nauvoo, Illinois; and finally in Utah Territory.

Miraculously the Brigham Young Academy survived, and now, as Brigham
Young University, it enters its second century. The school has an enrollment of
25,000 students, a level set by the Board of Trustees that has remained constant
since 1970. The figure represents a 500 percent increase over the 1950 enrollment.
BYU students come from every state in the United States and from more than
seventy foreign countries — admission being open to students of all races, faiths,
and countries. Moreover, through its program of continuing education, the Uni-
versity serves more than 200,000 students throughout the United States and
abroad and maintains permanent centers in Austria, France, Spain, Mexico, En-
gland, and Israel. In 1974 the Church College of Hawaii at Laie became the
Brigham Young University-Hawaii campus.

Providing for the instruction and service of the large student body are more
than 3,000 full-time faculty members, staff, and administrative employees, with
some 250 job titles and representing such a broad scope of professional skills that
the University could thrive as an independent community, complete with all the
services and cultural benefits available in a large, modern city. The faculty in-
cludes some of the world's most distinguished authorities in science and letters.

The campus, situated on an eminence overlooking the agricultural and industrial
area of Utah County and nestled at the foot of the majestic Wasatch Mountains,
includes 529 acres on its central campus in addition to a 610-acre experimental and
educational farm at Spanish Fork, a student laboratory farm north of campus, and
an Alpine camp in Provo Canyon. The physical plant contains 380 buildings with
5.5 million square feet of floor space, and the immaculately maintained campus is
considered one of the most beautiful in America.

The University maintains on-campus residence halls for 6,000 students, nu-
merous cafeterias and other food operations, a large bookstore, a post office, a
photo studio, a bowling alley, game rooms, a laundry, presses, a barber shop, and
other conveniences. Soon a complex of buildings will be constructed nearby to
house the language training missions of the Church.

Despite its size, BYU is a friendly and democratic institution with no social units
restricting membership. However, plenty of activity is available for all with scores
of academic, departmental, geographical, athletic, and religious organizations on
campus. In addition, 119 branches in twelve stakes of The Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints are fully organized on campus, staffed mainly by students.

Membership in the Church is not required for admission to the University, al-
though at present about 95 percent of the students are members of the Church.
Everyone, including each nonmember, is required to observe high standards of
dress and conduct. More than 8,000 students are former missionaries who have
served in over 100 missions throughout the world. During the campus dis-
orders of the late 1960s and early 1970s BYU attracted national attention for its
maintenance of law and order, dress standards, and respect for the flag.

Brigham Young University offers the associate, bachelor's, master's, and doctor's
degrees, and is organized into thirteen colleges that provide college training in 140
subjects. The colleges are Biological and Agricultural Sciences, Business, Law,
Education, Family Living, Humanities, Engineering and Technology, Fine Arts and
Communications, Nursing, Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Physical Educa-
tion, General Studies, and Social Sciences. In addition. Religious Instruction is a

xii

university-wide subject in which faculty members from many departments par-
ticipate. There are also the Continuing Education Division, Graduate School, Re-
search Division, Computer Services, and Honors Program. The University is ac-
credited by the nationally recognized accrediting agencies, both institutional and
departmental, and its graduates and transferees are accepted to all institutions of
higher learning.

Contributing to "education in living" at BYU is the unique assembly program
which is probably unmatched anywhere. Assemblies are held weekly in the huge
Marriott Center (capacity 23,000), where thousands of students gather to hear
Church leaders and the world's outstanding authorities in the arts, letters, sciences,
education, adventure, journalism, and government.

Recognized as a center of culture in the West, BYU brings to the campus through
its Lyceum program the world's outstanding musical groups and artists. Available
to students also are hundreds of departmental concerts, dramas, operas, art exhibits,
lectures, and conferences. In the 1972-73 academic year alone a total of 38,600
persons attended dramatic arts events, and 208,875 were counted at musical events.

The University is a member of the Western Athletic Conference and is con-
sistently a strong contender in conference and national sports competition. It owns
the best record of any school in the conference for its total athletic program.

Few universities have been recognized for talent as has Brigham Young Uni-
versity. The famous International Folk Dancers have represented the United States
ten times on tours in Europe and at international folk festivals in dozens of Euro-
pean and Middle Eastern countries. BYU Program Bureau variety troupes have
toured the Orient, Europe, and South America many times; dramatic casts have
taken plays to military bases in the Far East and Europe; and the renowned A Cap-
pella Choir has toured Europe four times, winning international prizes.

This has been a brief contrast between the halting start of Brigham Young Uni-
versity and its current impressive stature as it completes its first 100 years of ser-
vice. Certainly, the massive and complex modern university was beyond the com-
prehension and wildest hope of those who struggled through its troubled inception.
Those who now cross the stage are infinitely more sophisticated — familiar with
moon landings, radio and television, control of disease, organ transplants, the
computer, atomic power, supersonic speed, synthetic diamonds, and stereophonic
sound — and it is entirely possible that the second 100 years of BYU may bring
developments beyond the comprehension of those who now celebrate the first.

Yet some aspects of the University have remained unchanged over the century,
such as faith in God, industry, integrity, and service to his Church for the salvation
of mankind — all of which characterized the lives of the school's founders and
motivated its present vital operation and which will be the identifying qualities of
those who look back from the bicentennial.

xiii

The Beginnings
tol 876

■ — --3

i~£r~

JgBSSS

(Opposite page, top)

A history of Brigham Young University,
pictorial or prose, must of necessity be-
gin with its forerunners, since the in-
stitution was a development of its
pioneer milieu.

Let us begin, then, at March 12, 1849,
when John 5. Higbee, called by Brigham
Young, led a company of thirty families
with "130 souls" into Utah Valley to
establish a settlement. Three miles
north of Provo River they were met by
hostile Timpanogos Utes, and an excited
brave told them not to come farther.
Dimick Huntington, the interpreter,
convinced him that the settlers meant
no harm, and they were allowed to camp
near Provo River. There they built Fort
Utah on the south side of the river near
what is now Center Street and Vineyard
Road. The position was precarious be-
cause just a month earlier a company of
thirty-one men led by Colonel John
Scott had fought a pitched battle with
cattle-rustling Indians at Battle Creek
(Pleasant Grove) and had killed many
of them. It was because the killings had
distressed Brigham Young that he sent
the Higbee Company to try to establish
a peaceful settlement.

The pioneers planted crops and built
a sawmill, and in typical Mormon fash-
ion, they also started a school in one of
the log cabins in the stockade. Mary
Ann Turner taught the children and was
joined later in the teaching duties by
George W. Bean after he had lost an
arm in the premature explosion of the
fort's only cannon. Indians sometimes
peeked into the fort, and the children
held up to their view pictures of Indians
they had drawn, whereupon the natives
fled in great alarm, much to the amuse-
ment of the pupils.

But soon the fort was in a state of
siege. An Indian brave. Old Bishop,
was killed in a quarrel over stolen
clothing. In reprisal, the Indians killed
many cattle and fired upon the settlers.

(Opposite page, bottom)

The original fort was on low, wet
ground, and on the advice of Brigham
Young, the settlers started a new fort in
the fall of 1849 and moved in 1850 to
more advantageous land about two
miles to the northeast, where North
(Sowiette) Park is now located. There
they built Fort Provo, named after
Etienne Provot, an early French trapper
in the area. In this stockade they con-
structed another schoolhouse, fifty feet
long, which also served as a meeting-
house, and started a harness shop, a
flour mill, a threshing machine, and
other industries.

Here again the Indians, displeased
with the presence of the white settlers,
taunted them, killed their cattle, some-
times shot arrows or firearms in their
direction, and caused general mischief.
A military company led by George
Grant came to the aid of Fort Provo.
Interpreter Dimick Huntington again
tried to pow-wow, but the Indians fired
on the troops, precipitating a two-day
battle around a deserted cabin on Provo
River near the fort until the Indians
fled. Many had been killed.

Chief Walker was furious over the
incident and threatened to massacre the
dwellers in the fort. However, Chief
Sowiette, who had befriended the Mor-
mons, warned the belligerent Walker
that he would defend the settlers if
Walker tried to carry out his threat.
The residents were saved.

The optimistic pioneers in 1850 had
the area south of the fort surveyed into
a city of one square mile with four-acre
blocks and a town square in the center
(now Pioneer Park). In the same year
the city was granted a charter, and in
1851 the settlers began moving out of
the fort. Although tax laws for public
schools were passed in 1863, only pri-
vate and Church schools existed for
many years.

(Top)

On July 18, 1853, Indians killed a guard
at Fort Payson, precipitating the Walker
War, which raged in much of Utah.
Brigham Young advised the settlers
throughout the area to move closer to-
gether and build walls around their
towns as a defense. The next spring the
settlers who had established themselves
along the river bottoms and other out-
lying areas of Provo moved into the
city and began construction of a mud
wall on what is now Seventh West
Street from Sixth South to Fifth North,
east on these streets to the present
University Avenue, and along the
Avenue to complete the enclosure. The
wall had a rock foundation 18 inches
thick, a height of 12 to 14 feet, a base
width of 4 to 6 feet, and a top width of
2 feet, reinforced with poles and planks
within. There were portholes and other
arrangements for defense. Work went
on for about two years, during which
time the west and south sides and part
of the north side were completed. As
the danger of Indian attack grew less,
work was discontinued. The wall re-
mained standing a number of years but
has since disappeared.

(Bottom)

This very early photograph of West
Center Street in Provo illustrates the
thrust of the city toward industry and
commerce, after a beginning of extreme
hardship. The subsiding of Indian
hostilities did not mean the end of
trouble for the pioneers. The grass-
hopper invasions of 1854 and 1855
practically wiped out their crops, and
the settlers suffered much hunger and
hardship.

Adding to their woes in 1857, Presi-
dent James Buchanan of the United
States, who had been misinformed
about Mormon activities in the Great
Basin, sent government troops to Utah
to end Brigham Young's governorship
and put down what Buchanan had been
told erroneously was a rebellion. The
new governor, Alfred Cumming, when

he arrived in April, 1858, was alarmed
to see a great exodus south from Salt
Lake City. But his reassurances were
too late to stop it, and thirty thousand
refugees moved into Utah Valley, which
was already struggling for survival. It
was not until June of 1858 that negotia-
tions with Cumming were complete
and the people were convinced they
could return to Salt Lake City. The
troops moved to Camp Floyd, west of
Utah Lake.

The Dusenberry Brothers
Credit for elevating the cultural and
educational life of Utah Valley and pav-
ing the way for the establishment of
Brigham Young Academy in 1875
should be given to two brothers, War-
ren Newton Dusenberry and Wilson
Howard Dusenberry. Warren, born in
Pennsylvania in 1836, and Wilson, born
in Illinois in 1841, came west in 1860
with their parents, a brother, and two
sisters. Their mother, Aurilla Coray
Dusenberry, was converted to Mor-
monism as early as 1846. Their father,
Mahlon, never joined the Church, and
their religious differences eventually
split the family. They stayed in Provo
six weeks in 1860 before pressing on to
Sacramento, and Warren had oppor-
tunity to receive more schooling at
Vacaville College.

Aurilla returned in 1862 with War-
ren, Wilson, and daughters Mary Ann
and Martha Jane to Provo, where the
brothers were immediately engaged to
teach in the First Ward School and other
schools. Warren found the supply of
school books woefully inadequate, and,
characteristically, from his personal
funds he purchased fifty dollars worth
of books in Salt Lake City to bolster the
book collection.

During his first year in Provo he par-
ticipated in a series of public lectures
treating various phases of education.
"He advocated less harsh discipline,
declared that lessons should be made
attractive to the pupils, and urged that
good manners and proper social con-
duct should be characteristic of the
schoolroom," explains one biography.

Warren N. Dusenberry, operator of
schools that were the forerunners of the
Brigham Young Academy and first
principal of the Academy, December 4,
1875-April 15, 1876.

Wilson H. Dusenberry, early teacher in
Provo and member of the first Board of
Trustees of Brigham Young Academy.
He continued as a member of the Board
until 1921.

Cluff Hall School

The next year, while Wilson continued
on at the First Ward School, Warren
operated a grade school of his own with
eighty-three scholars in Cluff Hall, a
large adobe building at Second North
and Second East. He did whatever was
necessary to accomplish his task, even
making some of the furniture with his
own hands. Some of the first desks
used in the Brigham Young Academy
were constructed by Warren Dusen-
berry for use in his school at Cluff Hall.

The next term there were 120 stu-
dents, and both Warren and Wilson
taught grammar, geography, algebra,
declamation and essays, arithmetic,
animal science, beginning architecture,
reading, and spelling. A Mr. Daniels
taught music. The school's curriculum
led to a literary society, debates, a band,
athletics, and drama.

There were always problems of fi-
nances. The people were poor, and
farmers needed the children at home to
help with the farm work. The new
school board allotted them $3.50 per
scholar per three-month term. In addi-
tion, the Dusenberrys were busy with
other interests. They opened a store
and a telegraph agency and worked in
the post office, and Warren was a mem-
ber of the Grand Jury. The brothers had
been baptized in 1864, and Warren
went on a mission in 1867.

The Kinsey Building School
After a lapse of four years Warren again
opened a school for the higher grades in
the Kinsey Building at First West and
Center Street. During the 1869-70
school year, students came in such num-
bers that the Kinsey Building proved too
small; it was necessary to move to more
commodious quarters in the Lewis
Building, owned by Brigham Young.

The Timpanogos Branch of the
University of Deseret
In the winter of the same year. Terri-
torial Superintendent of Schools Robert
L. Campbell; Elder George A. Smith, an
apostle of the Church; Daniel H. Wells,
chancellor of the University of Deseret;
and other officials visited the school and

were so favorably impressed that in
May, 1870, they decided to transform
the Dusenberry School into the Tim-
panogos Branch of the University of
Deseret, with Warren Dusenberry as
principal. The enrollment soon
reached 300, and it became necessary to
employ additional teachers, including
Frank E. Stone, John E. Booth, T. B.
Lewis, Wilson Dusenberry, Abner
Keeler, and others. Brigham Young
supported the school by waiving the
rent to the Lewis Building because the
school was accomplishing what the
Church leaders desired: to train their
children at home rather than sending
them to Eastern finishing schools or to
one of the schools of other denomina-
tions springing up along the Wasatch
Front.

The Timpanogos Branch was sus-
pended in 1875 when the Territorial
Legislature refused to appropriate any
more funds, and local residents would
not consent to taxes. Teachers had to
collect produce in wheelbarrows for
wages. Moreover, Warren Dusenberry
had been forced to spread himself too
thin. He was called to New York in
1871 to serve in the Emigration Com-
pany and was also busy as a lawyer, as
a probate judge, and as Utah County
Superintendent of Common Schools.
In his report for 1874-75, the Terri-
torial Superintendent stated that it was
necessary to suspend the operation of
the school that May "owing to an im-
perfect organization," a statement never
satisfactorily explained.

After his brief term as principal of
Brigham Young Academy, Warren
Dusenberry also held positions as city
attorney, city councilman, mayor of
Provo, county and district judge, and
territorial attorney.

(Top)

In 1852 the Saints built a home in Provo
for their beloved leader and apostle,
George Albert Smith. It was an adobe
house, two stories high, 60 by 30 feet,
with two large rooms on each floor.
Elder Smith soon donated it back to the
community, and it became the Provo

Seminary, or schoolhouse, and the
Third Ward Meeting House until an-
other chapel was built in 1901. This
photograph was taken at the corner-
stone laying for the new chapel, but it
gives a good indication of the appear-
ance of the early meetinghouse schools
where teachers such as Warren and
Wilson Dusenberry taught.

( Opposite page, bottom)

This was the First Ward School in Provo,
where Warren and Wilson Dusenberry,
later prominently connected with Brig-
ham Young Academy, first began teach-
ing in 1862. The photograph is so
labeled in a collection of negatives
loaned by Floyd Brereton — a collection
assembled by his grandfather, Joseph
B. Walton, who was a pupil in both the
Timpanogos Branch of the University
of Deseret and the Brigham Young
Academy. The men in the picture are
not identified.

(Top)

This early photograph of West Center
Street in Provo was taken near the
millrace at Second West, looking west.
The two-story building at the end of the
block at Third West was the Lewis
Building, constructed in 1867 (This
photograph must have been taken soon
afterwards). It became the home of the
Dusenberry School, the Timpanogos
Branch of the University of Deseret,
and the first home of Brigham Young
Academy. When the Lewis Building
burned in 1884, the citizens formed a
block-long bucket brigade from this
stream to the burning school.

(Bottom)

This photograph of Warren Dusenberry,
first principal of Brigham Young Acad-
emy, was taken in New York City about
1869 or 1871 and was printed in The
Deseret News as a historical feature on
August 13, 1904. Dusenberry was in
New York at that time (before the es-
tablishment of BYA) to assist with the
organization of transportation for im-
migrant Mormon converts traveling to
Utah from Europe. Shown are, left to

right: Henry Naisbitt of Salt Lake City;
David M. Stewart of Ogden; Judge
Dusenberry; Professor Orson Pratt,
who was in New York supervising the
publication of his famous Deseret
Alphabet; W. H. Miles, then a resident
of New York, who later came to Utah to
make his home; and Joseph A. Young,
"father of Major Richard W. Young who
was east on railroad business when he
fell in with the missionaries from Zion
and sat for his photograph with them."

Brigham Young

Brigham Young, second President of
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-
day Saints, empire builder of the West,
governor of the Utah Territory, and
founder of Brigham Young University,
was born on June 1, 1801, in Whiting,
Windham County, Vermont.

In his early life he was a carpenter,
cabinetmaker, painter, and glazier, and
lived with his wife and two daughters in
western New York before he heard of
Mormonism and Joseph Smith. After
obtaining information about the Latter-
day Saints, Brigham Young spent two
years studying the new religion before
he was baptized on April 14, 1832.
From that day until his death 45 years
later, he was a central figure in the
turbulent history of the Church.

On February 14, 1835, he was or-
dained an apostle, and during the ex-
pulsion of the Saints from Missouri in
1838, as senior member of the Quorum
of the Twelve Apostles he directed the
removal of the people to Nauvoo, Illi-
nois, while Joseph Smith was impri-
soned on false charges in Liberty Jail.

News of the martyrdom of Joseph
Smith reached Brigham Young in
Boston in July of 1844, and as presiding
officer of the Council of the Twelve
Apostles, he accepted the responsibility
of directing the affairs of the Church,
becoming the spiritual and temporal
leader of an already numerous and
harrassed group of people. Those re-
sponsible for the death of Joseph Smith
had supposed that the Church would
disintegrate without his leadership.
When they found they were mistaken.

they renewed hostilities. In violation
of agreements that had been made, the
persecutors of the Latter-day Saints
forced them out of their homes in
Nauvoo. They were poorly prepared in
the dead of the winter. In the first flight
of refugees were more than 12,000
men, women, and children; 3,000
wagons; 30,000 head of horses, cattle
and mules; and flocks of sheep, swine,
and chickens. Brigham Young was the
organizing genius who piloted that
body of dispossessed, ill-equipped
people for 2,000 miles through winter
storms and summer sun across track-
less prairies and mountain fastnesses to
the Valley of the Great Salt Lake,
where they arrived on July 24, 1847, and
where they thought no one else would
ever want to come. The land then be-
longed to Mexico and was not ceded to
the United States until after the signing
of the treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo in
1848. Brigham Young was sustained as
President of the Church on December
27, 1847. He was named governor of
the State of Deseret on July 3, 1849,
and governor of the Utah Territory on
February 3, 1851.

When they were established in this
new land, the Latter-day Saints sent
missionaries throughout the world and
devised the Perpetual Emigration Fund
to assist converts to come to America.
Brigham Young also ordered the coloni-
zation of the region west of the Rockies,
and some 358 cities and settlements
were established under his leadership.
Well-organized groups were sent to
occupy the valleys and strategic loca-
tions, and each company was supplied
with carpenters, mechanics, and other
specialists to enable them to establish
homes in the wilderness. They dug
canals, imported plants and animals,
built railways and telegraphs, estab-
lished banks and industries, built
temples and meetinghouses, constructed
theaters and schools, encouraged music,
literature, art, and drama, and started
silk and cotton industries.

Although he stated that he had had
only eleven days of formal schooling,
Brigham Young respected education

and strongly promoted it in Mormon
communities. In fact, men with large
families, such as Daniel H. Wells,
Heber C. Kimball, and Brigham Young,
organized private schools for their
families. Brigham Young's educational
philosophy is summarized in his defini-
tion: "Education is the power to think
clearly, the power to act well in the
world's work, and the power to appre-
ciate life." During a sermon in the Salt
Lake Tabernacle in October of 1860 he
said, "Zion has to be built up, and we
want men who are capable of superin-
tending every department. God de-
signs that men should be educated for
that purpose." He is quoted also in the
Journal of Discourses, volume 8, page 9,
as saying, "Let them also learn all truth
pertaining to the arts and the sciences
and how to apply the same to their
temporal wants. Let them study things
that are upon the earth and that are in
the heavens."

One of the main political issues in
Utah during this period was whether
the Church or the government should
control education in the Territory of
Utah. Political power was dictated out
of Washington through non-Mormon
governors and judges, who nullified
many of the original Mormon aspira-
tions. Great pressure was exerted to
force the Mormons to give up their
educational system for a tax-supported
secularized public school program.
Moreover, many other denominations
were organizing their own schools, and
in some cases Brigham Young had
difficulty obtaining support for atten-
dance at Mormon schools even from
bishops and members of the Church.
By 1888 there were eighteen academies
and seventy-two elementary schools in
Utah operated by other churches.

The Founding

There is much evidence that Brigham
Young had long given thought to a
system of higher education. As early as
1871 he had sent John R. Park on a fact-
finding mission to the Eastern states
and to England, France, Switzerland,
and Germany to study educational

systems. Also, other Church leaders
urged him to inaugurate educational
institutions.

The demise of the Timpanogos
Branch of the University of Deseret in
Provo provided the opportunity for
Brigham Young to establish an academy
in his name, a dream which he had long
entertained. The building was available
and the students were there awaiting
developments; moreover, the experience
of the Dusenberry schools and the
Timpanogos Branch in Provo had
created a climate and a demand for such
a school.

Consequently, on October 16, 1975,
Brigham Young executed a deed of trust
establishing the Brigham Young Acad-
emy and signed over certain properties
in the city for its support. He selected
seven Utah County leaders as trustees:
Abraham O. Smoot, Myron Tanner,
Leonard E. Harrington, Harvey H. Cluff,
Wilson M. Dusenberry, William Bring-
hurst, and Martha Jane Knowlton Coray.

On November 22, 1875, the trustees
elected Abraham O. Smoot as president,
with Wilson H. Dusenberry as secretary
and Harvey H. Cluff as treasurer. On
December 4, 1875, they appointed as
first principal Warren N. Dusenberry,
who served only for the first three-
month term to April 15, 1876.

The nature of Warren Dusenberry's
appointment, at a time when he was
heavily involved in private law practice
and as city attorney and city prosecutor,
indicates that his term was intended to
continue only until a successor could
be found. Notwithstanding, Warren
Dusenberry never lost interest in the
academy and often lent his influence to
its assistance. For example, he en-
couraged the county court to transfer
the homemade furniture, the fence
begun earlier in the year, and the Estey
organ to the title of the Academy. He
later also induced the court to provide
the tuition for twenty-six students to
attend normal class, and for a .number
of years annual appropriations were
made to pay the tuition of students of
the normal class in the Academy be-
cause of the need for teachers.

The Deed of Trust

The original deed of trust signed by
Brigham Young to establish the Brig-
ham Young Academy was a lengthy
legal document specifying properties
and responsibilities, but it also included
the following statement: "The bene-

ficiaries of this Academy shall be mem-
bers in good standing in The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or
shall be the children of such members,
and each of the boys who shall take a
full course, if his physical ability will
permit, shall be taught some branch of
mechanism that shall be suitable to his
taste and capacity; and all pupils shall
be instructed in reading, penmanship,
orthography, grammar, geography, and
mathematics, together with such other
branches as are usually taught in an
academy of learning; and the Old and
New Testaments, the Book of Mormon,
and the Book of Doctrine and Covenants
shall be read and their doctrines in-
culcated in the Academy."

(Top)

Abraham O. Smoot, friend of the
Prophet Joseph Smith, witness of the
Egyptian mummies and papyri asso-
ciated with the Pearl of Great Price, and
messenger who brought news of the
invasion of Johnston's Army in 1857,
was the first president of the Brigham
Young Academy Board of Trustees and
the financial savior of the school. He
was mayor of Salt Lake City when
President Brigham Young called him to
go to Provo in 1868 as president of Utah
Stake; and a few days after his arrival,
he was elected mayor of Provo. He
served for twelve years. He established
a bank, stores, and woolen mills; he
dealt in livestock and real estate; and
he was a representative in the terri-
torial legislature. He never took pay
for service in public office.

When Brigham Young was returning
from St. George in 1877, the two men
had their last conversation. Said Presi-
dent Young to President Smoot: “I

desire you, Brother Smoot, to turn your
influence and energies to the building
up of the Academy. In so doing you
will be blessed and the Lord will pros-
per you." The charge was faithfully
carried out. (Smoot was president of
the Board of Trustees from 1875 to
1895.)

(Opposite page, bottom)

Mrs. Martha Jane Knowlton Coray,
authoress and teacher, was appointed by
Brigham Young as a member of the
first Brigham Young Academy Board of
Trustees to represent women's interests.
With her husband, Howard Coray,
brother of the mother of Warren and
Wilson Dusenberry, she operated a
school in the Mormon community of
Nauvoo before the exodus of the Saints
to the Great Basin.

(Top)

Harvey H. Cluff, a member of the first
Board of Trustees of Brigham Young
Academy, was a publisher and a coun-
selor to President Abraham O. Smoot
in the Utah Stake Presidency. Like
President Smoot, he underwrote much
of the expense of the Academy and
battled to keep other institutions from
pirating its faculty.

(Bottom)

Leonard E. Harrington, a member of
the original BYA Board of Trustees, was
born January 7, 1816, in New York
State. He arrived in Utah on October
1, 1847, with the Edward Hunter Com-
pany. He was chairman of the judiciary
committee of the Territorial Legislature
for 28 years, mayor of American Fork,
and promoter of the first Utah free
school in 1866. Courtesy Utah State
Historical Society.

(Top)

William Bringhurst, also a member of
the original BYA Board of Trustees, was
born on November 8, 1818, in Phila-
delphia and came to Utah on October
10, 1847, with the John Taylor Com-
pany. He was bishop of the Springville
Ward, a city councilman, a member of
the Territorial Legislature, a director of
the Provo Woolen Mills, a merchant, a
farmer, and a stockraiser.

(Bottom)

Another member of the original Board
of Trustees was Myron Tanner, born
June 7, 1826, in Bolton, New York. He
reached Utah on July 29, 1847, as a
member of the Mormon Battalion,
marching in from Colorado and aided
other pioneer Saints by freighting to
Winter Quarters. Tanner became a
prominent stockman in Utah County;
he operated a grist mill in Provo and
was an officer of the Provo Woolen
Mills. He gave twenty years to city-
county work and served fifteen years as
selectman of Utah County. He was
bishop of the Provo Third Ward.

The Spiritual

Architect

1876-1892

Karl Gottfried Maeser was born at
Vorbrucke, Meissen, Germany, on
January 16, 1828, the son of Johann
Gottfried Maeser, an artist in the china
works where the famous Dresden china
was produced. The family was in com-
fortable circumstances but not wealthy.
As a child, Karl attended parochial
schools and later a private school where
he was tutored for the Gymnasium
(preparatory school) and entered the
Kreuzschule in Dresden in 1842. Here
students prepared for the university,
and only brighter students were ad-
mitted. After two years, he advanced
to the Schullehrerseminar (normal
college) at Friedrichstadt, where exami-
nations in teacher training were on a
national model. The system of teacher
education he later put into operation in
the Normal Department at Brigham
Young Academy was the same he had
known in Germany.

Following his teacher preparation,
Karl spent three years in Bohemia as
tutor to children of prominent Protes-
tant families. Later in Dresden he
taught in the first district school and
was promoted to the Budig Institute,
where he became vice-director and
married Anna Mieth, the daughter of
the principal.

After somewhat clandestine meet-

ings with the Mormon missionaries.
Professor Maeser was baptized on
October 14, 1855, at midnight in the
Elbe River to avoid the Prussian police.
His confirmation as a Church member
was followed by a marvelous manifesta-
tion in which he spoke in German while
President Franklin D. Richards spoke
in English, and they understood each
other perfectly without an interpreter.
His wife was baptized a few days later.
They were the first converts to the
the Church in Saxony.

A branch of eight members was
formed with Karl as presiding elder, but
the group soon decided to emigrate to
America. Professor Maeser resigned
his position in Dresden and the family
went to London, where he was called on
a mission to Scotland to work among
Germans. In 1857 the family continued
on to America, and one child died at
sea. When the family arrived in Phila-
delphia, Karl was called on a mission to
the Southern states. During the panic
of 1857 the family nearly starved. He
and four elders walked to Richmond,
Virginia, where Karl found work as a
music teacher for the family of John
Tyler, former President of the United
States. He sent for his family and they
remained there until 1859, when they
were called back to Philadelphia, where
Karl became president of the mission
conference. In 1860 he was given
charge of the emigrants at Florence,
Nebraska, on their trek to Utah. After
five years of hardship Karl finally
reached "Zion."

In the November after his arrival.
Professor Maeser opened an evening
school in the 17th Ward Schoolhouse,
and in 1861 President Young placed
him in charge of the Union Academy.
Next came his appointment in 1862 to
direct the Twentieth Ward Seminary.
He brought with him from Germany the
idea of the graded school and intro-
duced the primary, intermediate, and
grammar divisions in addition to night
school. It was at the seminar that he
became recognized as an outstanding
educator, speaker, and writer.

In 1864, during the rapidly increas-

ing popularity of the Twentieth Ward
Seminary, Professor Maeser was also
employed by Brigham Young as private
teacher for the Young family and other
children. To improve his financial
condition he took a part-time job as
bookkeeper for the Leonard and Hardy
mercantile firm. Since he was also
commissioned to be tabernacle organist,
he held four jobs at once.

In 1867 he was called to be president
of the Swiss and German Mission, a
position that helped to strengthen him
as an executive, a writer, a translator,
an orator, and a defender of the Church.
He established Der Stern magazine and
published the LDS hymnbook in Ger-
man, translating or composing twenty-
six of the hymns. He lectured in Ger-
many and was urged to stay, but he re-
turned to Utah in 1870 with 269 converts.

Welcomed back to the Twentieth
Ward Seminary, he was invited to ac-
cept the chair of pedagogy and German
at the University of Deseret, where he
also filled in as teacher of Greek history
and Latin. In 1872 he started the
Twentieth Ward Institute, inaugurating
a series of lectures on the principles of
teaching that led to the establishment
in 1875 of the Territorial Teachers In-
stitute, in which he also lectured.

Maeser served on three missions and
in at least eight teaching ventures be-
fore becoming principal of Brigham
Young Academy in 1876.

The Calling of Karl G. Maeser
On April 5, 1876, the explosion of a
powder magazine north of Salt Lake
City shook that part of the city and
brought down all of the plaster from
the ceiling of the Twentieth Ward
Schoolhouse where Karl G. Maeser was
teaching. Much concerned, he hurried
off in search of Bishop John Sharp and
found him at the office of President
Brigham Young. He reported the
damage and asserted that he could not
continue teaching until it was repaired.

"That is exactly right, Brother Mae-
ser," said President Young good-
naturedly (according to the account by

Maeser's son, Reinhard Maeser). "I
have another mission for you. Yes, we
have been considering the establishment
of a Church school, and are looking
around for a man — a man to take
charge of it. You are the man. Brother
Maeser. We want you to go to Provo
to organize and conduct the Academy
to be established in the name of the
Church — a Church school." (BYU
did not officially become a Church
school until 1896, but it was operated
as a Church school.)

After a few days, Elders George Q.
Cannon, George Reynolds, and Warren
Dusenberry called on Professor Maeser
at his home to discuss the matter further
and invited him to attend a board meet-
ing at Savage's Art Gallery the next
day. At this meeting, all arrangements
were made for a preliminary term to
start April 24, 1876. The principal's
salary was set at $1,200 a year in such
commodities as the treasurer might
receive in tuition.

A few days later Professor Maeser
again sought out President Young and
said, "I am ready to go to Provo. What
are your instructions?"

The President pondered for a mo-
ment and replied, "Brother Maeser,
remember that you ought not to teach
even the alphabet or the multiplication
tables without the Spirit of God. That
is all. God bless you. Goodbye."

Professor Maeser could find no
firmer foundation upon which to build
his administration, and he became the
great spiritual architect of the Academy;
his influence and example have guided
leaders of the University to the present.
He arrived in Provo on April 21, 1876,
preached on Sunday, April 23, and
opened school the next morning, rather
more promptly than was customary.
There were twenty-nine students, and
Maeser was the only teacher.

The first full year began on August
21, 1876, with the dedication of the
institution by Daniel H. Wells. There
were 59 students enrolled.

(Left)

The birthplace of Karl G. Maeser in
Vorbrucke, Meissen, Germany. This
photograph was taken on March 23,
1912. The tall man in the center of the
group of visitors is Elder Heber J.

Grant, who later became President of
the LDS Church.

(Right)

Anna Therese Mieth, born in 1830, was
married to Karl G. Maeser on June 11,
1854, and was the first woman to be
baptized into The Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints in the king-
dom of Saxony, Germany. One of the
Heritage Halls at Brigham Young Uni-
versity was named in her honor.

(Top)

In 1872 Karl G. Maeser started the
Twentieth Ward Institute in Salt Lake
City. Its curriculum consisted of a
series of lectures on the principles of
teaching. This led to the establishment
in 1875 of the Territorial Teachers In-
stitute, in which Professor Maeser also
gave lectures. In this 1872 photograph
is the Board of Directors of the Twen-
tieth Ward Institute. Left to right:
William C. Dunbar, Charles W. Stayner,
Henry Puzey, Karl G. Maeser, Herbert
J. Foulger, James Moffat, John Nichol-
son, Reinhard Maeser, Charles R.
Savage, George M. Ottinger, John
Squires, Jr., George Reynolds, Joseph
R. Sharp, and Charles Sansome.

(Center)

The Karl G. Maeser family resided in
this home in Provo at 184 North Second
East from 1880 to 1896. It was built by
Reinhard Maeser and presented to his
mother. Reinhard lived in the frame
home behind the main house. Dr.
Maeser's study was in the lower right
room. Their first home was an adobe
structure at 142 North Second East.

(Bottom)

This is a photograph of Professor Mae-
ser's studio, where he worked countless
hours. He delivered a series of lectures
before a convention of Sunday School
workers in Salt Lake City, and the
series was carried in the Deseret News.
He also wrote numerous articles for var-
ious journals. His son, Reinhard, relates:
"He delivered hundreds of sermons on
as many subjects, and spoke at a large
number of funerals. This vast amount
of writing and speaking added to his
regular daily duty in the school, almost
enough to have taken his full time, bore
upon him heavily, and he often came
home in the dead of night so weary that
he was scarcely able to get to bed."

(Top)

The enrollment of Brigham Young
Academy dropped from the 200 stu-
dents who attended the Timpanogos
Branch of the University of Deseret to
70 during the first experimental term of
Dusenberry and to 29 at the beginning
of Professor Maeser's second experi-
mental term on April 24, 1876. U.S.
Senator Reed Smoot, pictured here as a
youth, often said he was the first stu-
dent to sign up with Professor Maeser,
and Joseph B. Keeler, later a faculty
member, was the twenty-ninth. Pro-
fessor Maeser was the only teacher.
However, enrollment rose to 67 by the
end of the term, and the enrollment for
the next year was 272. Enrollment had
reached 400 in 1884 when the Lewis
Building burned.

wim

wr:

PS?

I 4*

[TSi

(Bottom)

An early group of students of the Brig-
ham Young Academy. Notice the high-
wheel bicycle at left, and the boy, left,
resting his foot on a mud scraper.

As Principal Maeser opened the
school in April 1876 he observed:
"There were no records, not much sys-
tem, and certainly no regularity." He
found "the premises inadequate, the
facilities limited, students few in num-
ber and poorly prepared, and financial
conditions exceedingly discouraging."

Moreover, the dignified professor

found liquor drinking and smoking and
hoodlumism a considerable challenge.

But he soon changed all that. School
started precisely at 8:45 a.m., an un-
heard-of imposition up to that time. He
instituted daily worship assemblies,
graded the classes, demanded discipline
and courtesy, inspired his students in
their studies, and organized a normal
class — his specialty. Maeser had met
some opposition on his arrival but soon
was acclaimed as the pupils became
scholars and the school began turning
out much-needed teachers.

BRIGHAM YOUNG ACADEMY

TE^H $»d0^D.

/.< X £hA eademic Year

. L/y.2r^s:£ezJL-r Department.

.Vo. of Days Present^..

Total.

77^

Close No.

Punctuality. ..

Order

Conduct

Thtology

Heading

Orthography .

Grammar

Arit’imetic ....
Geography ....
Penmanship. .

.i Uuth£....

m/7-

Y'tnfa,

/>"//?,

w/fr

tf-

44.

/ . -r/

■// • ■

(Right)

This is the report card of Daniel Har-
rington from the Normal Department of
the Academy for the third term of the
fourth academic year, 1879-1880,
signed by James E. Talmage for Karl G.
Maeser. The grades are strange to
modern methods of letter grading, but
are believed to be interpreted as follows:
in punctuality, for example, there were
fifty sessions worth ten points each for
a perfect score of 500. In arithmetic,
Harrington achieved 450 points of a
possible 500 in fifty sessions, and in
music, seventy of a possible eighty in
eight sessions.

H. Dusenberry built an addition of two
large rooms on the north side at a cost
of nearly $2,000.

At a commencement address given to
the graduating class of 1941, Associate
Justice George Sutherland of the United
States Supreme Court, who attended
school in the Lewis Building, described
it as "a grim, nondescript building
without beauty or grace or any other
aesthetic feature calculated to invite a
second look.” And he said the upstairs
hall was ”so utterly bare and gloomy as
to make inappropriate any form of en-
tertainment except tragedy.”

However, in the Deseret News of
April 25, 1879, George Q. Cannon de-
scribed it as "commodious, centrally
located, and well-furnished with the
appliances necessary to the comfort and
encouragement of its students.”

(Bottom)

Fire burst through the roof toward the
fore part of the Lewis Building at about
10:30 p.m. on January 24, 1884, shat-
tering the calm of that Sabbath evening.
Since there was no fire department, men
were sent running through the streets
shouting "Fire,” and the bell was rung
in the old Meeting House, bringing men
from all parts of the city to fight the
flames.

They began tearing down adjoining
buildings, and a bucket brigade formed
as if by magic from the burning school
to the mill race a block east. Shouting
men passed the filled buckets down one
line to the daring front fighters, who
rushed toward the flames, tossed their
meager supply of water at the devouring
fire, and retreated. The empty buckets
clanked back along the second chain to
the mill race for the repeat trip. Other
men and students braved the heat to
remove most of the furniture, books,
and apparatus on the first floor. Only
an organ and a few pieces of furniture
of the Ladies Work Department on the
second floor were saved before the
entire building was an inferno and
salvage and firefighting both ceased.

Then the defeated, helpless throng
stood by in stunned silence as their

(Top)

The Lewis Building, which was located
on the northeast corner of Center Street
and Third West in Provo, was con-
structed in 1867 by Jesse William Lewis,
pioneer brick manufacturer, and was
subsequently purchased by Brigham
Young. He deeded this property in
1875 as the first home of Brigham
Young Academy.

The structure, measuring 45 feet by
70 feet and requiring 140,000 bricks,
consisted of two stories and a basement.
The first floor had two rooms for a store
and offices in the rear. The second floor
was a hall with a stage to be used for

dancing and theatricals. Always in
need of money, the Academy rented the
upper floor for parties, dances, and
entertainments, charging twenty to
forty dollars, depending on the event —
a practice some of the presiding breth-
ren found offensive.

By 1882 the Lewis Building was in-
adequate for the needs of the Academy.
President Abraham O. Smoot, at a per-
sonal cost of $3,000, completed an addi-
tion of three commodious rooms on the
east side of the original building. The
next year the executive committee of
H. H. Cluff, Myron Tanner, and Wilson

beloved hall vanished in fiery spectacle.
As the charred beams collapsed, the old
school bell in a little belfrey near the
rear of the building clanged down
through the embers — a death knell for
the Lewis Building, first home of Brig-
ham Young Academy.

But it was not the knell of the Acad-
emy, as some had feared who had not
reckoned with the indomitable spirits
of Principal Maeser and the mayor and
president of the board, Abraham O.
Smoot, who called a meeting of the

students and faculty for the next morn-
ing. Reed Smoot (later the senator)
met Professor Maeser on the street that
night and lamented, "Oh, Brother
Maeser, the Academy has burned."

"No such thing," the Professor shot
back. "It is only the building."

In his account. President Smoot
wrote: "It is supposed to have been

done purposely by an enemy as there
had been no fire in the parts where the
flames were first seen since Friday last.
Estimated loss fifteen thousand; a meet-

ing has been appointed at ten this morn-
ing to decide on the course to pursue, a
guard is now around the ruins."

The cause was never determined, and
the building was a total loss. There was
no insurance.

(Top)

After the fire, only one day of school
was lost. Monday was spent moving the
furniture and arranging downtown
buildings as improvised classrooms that
served the school for the remainder of
the school year.

Students in the lower grades were
sent to the old Meeting House, where
classes were held for only four days be-
fore being transferred to other build-
ings. The normal, commercial, and
academic departments moved into the
top floor of the First National Bank
that occupied a building owned by
A. O. Smoot on the northwest comer
of Center and J Streets (J Street later
became University Avenue). The in-
termediate department moved into part
of the old S. S. Jones Store just north of
the bank. When some overcrowding
occurred, classes were held in the up-
stairs rooms above the Smoot Drug
Store, west of the bank building, and in
the homes of President Smoot and
Warren Dusenberry.

In this photograph the building with
the pointed spires is the present Provo
Tabernacle, finished in 1898. The pic-
ture also shows the old Meeting House,
which was razed in 1919.

( Center )

Another view of old Provo looking
toward the old and new tabernacles
from Second South Street.

(Bottom)

The S. 5. Jones Department Store in
downtown Provo where some classes of
Brigham Young Academy met upstairs
after the Lewis Building fire.

(Top)

At the corner of University Avenue and
Center Street was the First National
Bank Building, where classes of Brig-
ham Young Academy met in the up-
stairs room after fire destroyed the Lewis
Building in 1884. Classes also met in
the Smoot Drug Store building, left of
the bank, and in the S. S. Jones Store,
north of the bank (right). Courtesy
Utah State Historical Society.

(Center)

After the destruction of the Lewis
Building, the Board of Trustees of the
Academy arranged to rent the new
ZCMI warehouse at the south end of J
Street (University Avenue) at the rail-
road tracks; classes opened in that
facility on September 1, the beginning
of an eight-year occupancy. All of the
upper floor and part of the lower floor
were remodeled to provide classrooms,
a music room, a laboratory, and a
principal's office, with the entrance and
stairway on the north side. While the
warehouse was rough and temporary,
it provided more room than the school
had had in the Lewis Building. But the
adjacent railroad yards were used by
both the Union Pacific Railroad (which
reached Provo in 1873) and the Denver
and Rio Grande (which reached Provo
in 1881), and there was considerable
puffing, screeching, and roaring of
trains to disturb the classes, according
to Alice Louise Reynolds, an English
faculty member.

A report in the Territorial Enquirer
of August 12, 1884, tells of a tour
through the building led by Professor
James E. Talmage: "We were amazed
at the excellent arrangement that had
been made for the work of the next
academic year, and were compelled to
acknowledge that the new premises, as
now prepared, afford advantages, con-
veniences and facilities that are superior
to those enjoyed in the old building."

It described "spacious rooms" for the
Preparatory (capacity 50), Intermediate
(180), Academic (60), Collegiate (60),
and Normal (60) departments.

(Bottom)

The ZCMI warehouse as it looked at the
time the Academy used the building,
according to Clark Newell, who was a
student at that time. The students
lined up on the west side for their
photographs.

(Top)

Student body of Brigham Young Acad-
emy in front of the ZCMI warehouse,
temporary home of the school, in 1888.

(Center)

This old photograph was identified on
its reverse side as a group of young men
from the Academy in the 1880s. In the
picture are, seated, left to right: N. L.
Nelson, Caleb Tanner, James E. Tal-
mage, Hyrum Anderson, Emil Isgreen,
and Alfred L. Booth; standing; Dennis
Harris (father of Franklin S. Harris),
unidentified, Frank Noyes, Edward
Robinson, unidentified.

Nelson, Talmage, Isgreen, Harris, and
Anderson all became faculty members.

(Bottom)

The faculty of BYA in 1884, the year of
the fire: left to right, seated: J. M.

Tanner, Karl G. Maeser, Benjamin
Cluff, Jr.; standing, N. L. Nelson, Zina
Y. Card, J. M. Coombs, Nettie South-
worth, Willard Done.

By this time the average number of
students was 400, and there were seven
departments: Preparatory, Intermedi-

ate, Academic, Collegiate, Normal,
Music, and Ladies Work Department.

Also in operation was a Polysophical
Society, which had been organized in
1877-78. It was divided into Section A
for science and literature, Section B for
music and fine arts, and Section C for
civil government. The object of the
society, as stated in the school circulars,
was obtaining of general information,
recreation, practice in public speaking,
and knowledge of parliamentary usage.
A paper was published at irregular in-
tervals called The Academic Review
and later The Academic Monthly.

(Top left )

This is the cover of the first issue of the
Academic Review of the Polysophical
Society, published in October 1884.

(Top right)

Henry E. Giles (1859-1938) became
professor of music at BYA in 1886. He
organized the Music Department with a
rather full curriculum and later became
director of the band and the choir in
1892. He was also supervisor of music
in Provo city schools; he presided at the
organ at the Provo Tabernacle, and he
conducted the Provo Tabernacle Choir.
He was a pianist, an organist, and a
composer of anthems, oratorios, and
piano solos. Henry Giles taught A. C.
Lund, who became the Salt Lake Taber-
nacle Choir conductor. His son, Thomas
Giles, became head of the Music De-
partment at the University of Utah.
BYU named the Henry E. Giles Museum
of Musical Instruments in honor of the
pioneer musician in 1965.

(Center)

Faculty of the Academy in 1885: Wil-
lard Done, left; James E. Talmage,
Joseph Nelson, Karl G. Maeser, Jennie
Tanner, Benjamin Cluff, Jr., and Joseph
B. Keeler.

sms

r.'<m

A Journal of the

i : POLYSOPHICAL SOCIETY fj

I. -: ok tii k : — {}

\ Ifcmstrt

FIR.OVO, ----- TTT-A-H.

Devoted t>> .Science, Literature and Art.

VOL,

MAY. 1886.

No. 8

3ood$.

KeptOniianOvon H.inJ

I ^“Special Rates to Students Getting Outfits

Order* by wait prom ptl tj attended to.

usiness llo»>e: ('<» ntre St., PROVO.

• , A. Sinm.fton. Manager.

Sess""- “““ • *

(Bottom)

Amy Brown (Lyman) was teacher of
this first grade class in 1890 at the old
ZCMI warehouse.

bers of both the Utah Stake Presidency
and the BYA Board, they provided
moral and spiritual support for the
school, starting several programs in the
stake to raise money. In the winter of
1887, to bolster a shrinking enrollment,
President Smoot asked each member in
attendance at a Utah Stake priesthood
meeting to pay the tuition of at least
one student at the Academy. A striking
example of the response was A. L.
Booth, who was teaching his first year
at the Academy at a salary of $20 a
month and who paid a quarter's tuition
for one student.

An effort was made to obtain help
from the Church, but the Church itself
was lacking in funds and could make
only small contributions. It was in
March of that same year that Congress
passed the Edmunds-Tucker Law dis-
incorporating the Church, dissolving
the Perpetual Emigration Fund Com-
pany, and escheating their property to
the United States government. The
Church occupied the Tithing Office,
the historian's office, the Gardo House,
and Temple Block by paying rent to the
U.S. government!

( Bottom )

The BYU faculty at the old ZCMI ware-
house in 1891, the last year school was
held in the warehouse before moving to
the new Academy Building. Left to
right, front row: Mary Lyman Gowans,
Ottilie Maeser, Amy Brown (Lyman);
second row: Ephraim Gowans, Ben-

jamin Cluff, Jr., Karl G. Maeser, Joseph
B. Keeler; third row: George H. Brim-
hall, N. L. Nelson, Emil Isgreen, Hyrum
Anderson, Emil Maeser.

(Top)

The Brigham Young Academy faculty
in 1888. Seated, left to right: Joseph
B. Keeler, Ottilie Maeser, Karl G. Mae-
ser, Laura Foote, N. L. Nelson; stand-
ing: E. B. Isgreen, A. L. Booth, Hyrum
Anderson.

A period of great distress to the
Academy came after the fire — a time
referred to in later years by Principal
Maeser as "those dark days," when the

school could not pay its rent and the
teachers did not receive their meager
salaries. There were times when the
Board, not knowing where to get funds
to run the school, considered closing it.
It was then that Professor Maeser and
his faculty showed their intense loyalty
and taught for anything that might be
had rather than close the school.

Since President A. O. Smoot and
President Harvey H. Cluff were mem-

(Top)

Soon students were coming to BYA
from surrounding states and many
counties in Utah, and boarding students
became an important activity in the
city. For several years the Academy
operated a boarding house with thirty-
two boarders in the three-story building
at Center Street and First West, later
the Wilson Hotel (on the corner in this
photo taken from the new Tabernacle
on Founder's Day about the turn of the
century. Courtesy Utah State Historical
Society. Joseph B. Keeler was steward,
Mrs. Jennie Tanner, matron, and Wil-
lard Done, presiding tutor.

In each home where students were
boarding, a senior was appointed who
had general supervision of the students
in the home. At school meetings held
for the purpose, the seniors were called
on for reports relative to social habits,
observance of the Word of Wisdom,
and other matters of decorum and per-
sonal welfare of the boarders. In 1885
the Domestic Organization was founded
with strict rules governing the behavior
of the students.

(Bottom left )

In 1888 Professor Maeser was called as
the first superintendent of Church
Schools, although he was not immedi-
ately relieved of his duties as principal
of the Academy. The following year
the Board of Education conferred on
him the degree of Doctor of Letters and
Didactics at a time when he was busy
establishing academies throughout the
Church.

He was away much of the time, and
the Academy Board selected James E.
Talmage to replace Dr. Maeser as
principal. Talmage, an immigrant from
England in 1876, entered the academy
soon after his arrival in Utah and later
was employed as a teacher. In 1882 he
was given a leave of absence to obtain a
bachelor's degree from Lehigh Univer-
sity. Later he studied an additional year
at Johns Hopkins University and re-
turned to the Academy as teacher of
chemistry and geology.

Professor Talmage accepted the

principalship but never served. He had
done little more than outline plans for
the ensuing year when he was called by
the presiding authorities of the Church
to the principalship of the Salt Lake
Academy, afterwards the Latter-day
Saints College and still later the LDS
University. Dr. Maeser stayed on as
BYA principal. In 1890 when Benjamin
Cluff, Jr., returned from the University
of Michigan with his bachelor's degree,
he was made assistant principal, a
position he held until January 4, 1892,
when he became principal.

itff. fatrcnf and Jriond* of fiduraticn.

From the founding of this Academy, the lorming of a Library has
been one of the chief objects of the Board of Directors and the Faculty;
but the want of means has prevented us, thus far, from acquiring this
essential element of an educational institution; the rapid development
of the Academy, however, in number of students as well as in studies,
has made it an imperative necessity to secure to us in some way the
privileges of a Library, the lack of which is proving seriously detri-
mental ro our progress.

Therefore, the undersigned, in consideration of the above, and
with the sanction of the Board of Directors, makes this appeal to all
that feel an irterest in our Academy, and solicits their assistance in
the shape ©f a contribution of some book or hooks of an instructive or
interesting nature, which can be placed in our Library for the use of
the students. The Dames of the donors will not only be preserved
in the books themselves, but also in the catalogues of the Library and
the Records of the Academy.

Fully appreciating the kind feeling which the public have mani-
fested already toward our young Academy, we hope with much greater
confidence that our present appeal will be generously responded to by
everyone to whom these presents may come.

Respectfully,

KARL G. MAESER,

Principal B. Y. A.

Dr. Talmage went on to become
president of the University of Deseret
and an apostle in the Church. Brigham
Young University named the James E.
Talmage Mathematical Sciences and
Computer Building in his honor in 1974.

(Bottom right)

This is a front page from the Brigham
Young Academy Circular, published
during the Maeser administration. This
issue, December 21, 1877, makes an
appeal for books for the library.

(Top)

The Brigham Young Academy Class of
1890. Standing, left to right: John

Johnson, Joseph Nelson, Charles Dorius,
George Shelly, Samuel Brown, Amelia
Fillerup Hutchins, Caleb Tanner, Joseph
McGregor, Bryant S. Hinckley, May-
hew Dailey, John Peterson, Axel Niel-

son, Emil Maeser, Amy Brown (Lyman).
Sitting: Mary D. Hanson (Dailey),

Andrew Morgan, George W. Middleton,
Alice Louise Reynolds, A. C. Nelson,
William Winters, Robert Skelton.

( Center /

This photograph, taken in 1891, pic-

tures Dr. Maeser, center, amid faculty
members on the steps of the then un-
finished Academy Building, where he
never taught. He had nurtured the
fledgling Academy through the difficult
years of the Lewis Building and the
dark years of the old warehouse, but on
the day the new Academy Building was
opened, January 4, 1892, the old pro-
fessor was replaced as principal by
Benjamin Cluff, Jr., at his left in this
picture. Dr. Maeser had been superin-
tendent of Church Schools since 1888
and had continued to serve also as
principal until 1892.

His son, Reinhard, likened him to
Moses: “For sixteen years the Academy
had grown under his leadership. He
had convinced all Israel of the potency
of its unique mission in the educating
and training of her youth. Like a Moses
he had cleft the rock of ignorance and
streams of living truth had gushed
forth. He led the school to its new
home — the home which he had seen
years before in vision. It was here while
standing upon the threshold of the
magnificent structure, that he laid his
mantle upon the shoulders of a Joshua
and wept as did Moses from Pisgah's
heights."

Faculty members in the picture: 1.

J. E. Booth; 2. Ephraim Gowans; 3. Dr.
Milton Hardy; 4. Karl G. Maeser; 5.
William E. Rydalch; 6. Benjamin Cluff;
7. Wilson H. Dusenberry; 8. E. A.
Wilson; 9. Alfred L. Booth; 10. George
H. Brimhall; 11. Emil Maeser; 12. Nels
L. Nelson; 13. Amy Brown (Lyman);
14. Ottilie Maeser; 15. Mary Lyman
(Gowans); 16. Emil B. Isgreen; 17. Lars
E. Eggertson; 18. Hyrum Anderson.

(Bottom )

The BYA Class of 1891. Standing, left
to right: Alexander Jameson, A. C.

Lund, George Ramsey, Alba Murdock,
Edwin S. Hinckley, Thomas A. Yates,
Eugene Hart, Henry Peterson, Archi-
bald Bevan, O. W. Andelin; seated:
Benjamin Cluff, Jr. (assistant principal),
Wilford McKendrick, Mary Lyman
(Gowans), Cora Groesbeck (Snow),
Ida Alleman (Taylor), Richard R. Lyman.

(Top)

This gathering in 1898 was in honor of
Karl G. Maeser on his fiftieth year of
teaching. Here in front of the Academy
Building, he is in the center, holding a
bouquet of flowers. Dr. Maeser had
established forty-two schools. Courtesy
of R. John Blake.

(Bottom)

The only time the entire Karl G. Maeser
family was photographed together was
in front of the Maeser home in Provo
on the day in May in 1898 when Dr.
Maeser was honored for fifty years of
teaching. In the group were, back row,
left to right: Mabel Maeser Tanner,

Ottilie Maeser Phelps, Emil Maeser,
Reinhard Maeser, Eva Maeser, George
S. McAllister (Nettie's husband), Anna
Maeser (who died at age 19, the only
daughter of the Professor's second wife,
Emilie Damke Maeser); middle row:
Sarah S. Maeser and daughter Camille,
Lillian Maeser (Emil's wife), Karl G.
Maeser, Georgia Maeser, Nettie M.
McAllister and Theresa, Emilie Damke
Maeser (Karl's second wife, whom he
married in 1875; Anna, his first wife,
had died in 1896); first row: Russ (son
of Lillian by a previous marriage), Gil-
bert Maeser (son of Reinhard), Sherwin
Maeser, Beatrice Maeser Mitchell,
Therese Maeser Larsen.

(Right)

Karl G. Maeser died quietly in his sleep
in the early morning of February 15,
1901, after spending a strenuous day at
his office the day before. Funeral ser-
vices were conducted in the Salt Lake
Tabernacle on February 19 by the
Deseret Sunday School Union, of which
he was second assistant superintendent.
Many General Authorities of the
Church were pallbearers and speakers.

Poetess Annie Pike Greenwood
(Class of 1900) composed a poem, "To
Karl G. Maeser," which later became
an LDS hymn: "The Teacher's Work is
Done."

Come, lay his books and papers by,

He shall not need them more;

The ink upon his pen shall dry, —

So softly close the door.

His tired head with locks of white.

And like the winter's sun.

Hath lain to peaceful rest to-night, —
The teacher's work is done.

His work is done; no care to-night
His tranquil rest shall break;

Sweet dreams, and with the morning
light

On other shores he'll wake.

His noble thoughts, his wise appeal,

His work that battles won; —

But God doth know the loss we feel, —
The teacher's work is done.

We feel it while we miss the hand
That made us brave to bear;
Perchance in that near-touching land
His work did wait him there.
Perchance when death its change has
wrought.

And this brief race is run.

His voice again shall teach who
thought

The teacher's work was done!

(Left)

An important graduate of the Academy
who received his inspiration from
Professor Maeser was George Suther-
land, who was brought from England
by his parents when he was eighteen
months old and who enrolled in BYA
in 1879 at age 17. He enjoyed the sub-
ject of logic as presented by Dr. Maeser.
The old schoolmaster was a strong
influence in his life, providing an ex-
ample of honor, dignity, and industry.
Sutherland later studied at Michigan,
Columbia, and George Washington uni-
versities and was appointed to the U.S.
Supreme Court by President Warren
Harding in 1922, the first justice of
foreign birth and the only Utahn to
hold that position. He also served as
U.S. Congressman from Utah, U.S.
Senator, and president of the American

Bar Association. BYU conferred on
him the honorary degree of doctor of
laws in 1941.

Justice Sutherland recalled: "Dr.

Maeser was not only a scholar of great
and varied learning, with an exceptional
ability to impart what he knew to
others, but he was a man of such trans-
parent and natural goodness that his
students gained not only knowledge,
but character, which is better than
knowledge. I have never known a man
whose learning covered so wide a range
of subjects and was at the same time
so thorough in all. His ability to teach
ran from the kindergarten to the
highest branches of pedagogy. In all
my acquaintances with him I never
knew a question to be submitted upon
any topic that he did not readily and
fully answer."

Widening

Horizons

1892-1903

Benjamin Cluff, Jr., third principal and
first president of Brigham Young Acad-
emy, was a dynamic innovator who
reached beyond the local milieu of the
Academy to the cultures and learning of
other regions and other lands. An edu-
cational pioneer, he developed the
institution from a normal school with a
very small college department into a
university. His life was filled with ser-
vice to his Church, to his school, and to
his beloved family. Tenacious searching
for the truth and determined adherence
to a course of action characterized this
remarkable man.

Born in Provo on February 7, 1858, a
son of Benjamin and Mary Ellen Foster
Cluff, he spent his early years in Logan
and accompanied his parents on a mis-
sion to Hawaii in 1864. In 1875
"Benny" journeyed to Coalville, Utah,
to live with an uncle, Summit Stake
President William W. Cluff, and earned
his keep by clerking in his uncle's store.
He became an avid reader of Twain,
Milton, Shakespeare, and other authors
in the town library.

True to his determined nature, in the
spring of 1877 he traveled 67 miles
from Coalville to Provo to enroll in the
recently established Brigham Young

Academy, working as a janitor to pay
expenses. Hardly had he started as a
student when he was called on a mis-
sion to Hawaii in 1878, serving until
1882. On his mission, ethnology and
archaeology took on new meaning as
the islanders and Indians provided sub-
ject matter for Book of Mormon re-
search. On Benjamin's return to Provo
Karl G. Maeser engaged him as a
teacher.

Family life began with his marriage
on August 16, 1883, to Mary Jane John,
daughter of David John of the Utah
Stake presidency. Soon after his mar-
riage he became president of the Utah
Stake YMMIA, one of his many posi-
tions serving the youth of the Church.
His second marriage, to Harriet Culli-
more, took place in Logan on December
17, 1886, and his third marriage to
Florence Reynolds was performed in
Mexico. He became the father of
twenty-five children.

In October 1886 he was granted
leave to study at the University of
Michigan, and while there he engaged
in a debate: "Resolved: That Utah Is
Ready for Statehood." Thereafter, he
received many challenges through de-
bates and lectures. He graduated high
in his class with the B.S. degree in 1890,
one of the first Utahns to obtain an
eastern university degree.

Karl G. Maeser was named superin-
tendent of Church Schools in 1888, and
Cluff was chosen as assistant principal
of BYA in 1890. He was installed as
principal on January 4, 1892, the day
the Academy Building was dedicated.
In 1891 the Church Board of Education
tried to obtain Cluff for the LDS College
in Salt Lake City, but the indignant and
adamant A. O. Smoot, Harvey H. Cluff,
and Karl G. Maeser called on President
Wilford Woodruff. The board minutes
show that after a long meeting "Presi-
dent Woodruff and the board cheerfully
withdrew the call of B. Cluff."

During Cluff's administration the
school was beset with financial diffi-
culties caused in part by the panic of
1893. With the help of President Smoot
and others, he was able to keep the

struggling school on its feet and even to
add a new building, now known as
College Hall. New articles of incorpora-
tion adopted in 1896 established the
school as a Church institution, and the
Church assumed its $80,000 indebted-
ness.

The Church became aware that it
needed trained leaders, and Professor
Cluff readily accepted the opportunity
to return to Michigan in 1893 to obtain
a master's degree. George H. Brimhall
was acting principal in his absence, but
Cluff remained in charge with a flow of
correspondence.

With Cluff's experience in an eastern
school, he widened the horizons of the
Academy. He introduced psychology, a
subject new to this area; he organized
the first Normal College, the Com-
mercial College, and the Art Depart-
ment. During this time white and blue
were selected as the school's colors;
class organizations were inaugurated in
1891, with Richard R. Lyman as first
president; Founder's Day was instituted
on October 16, 1891; a student loan
association was organized; classes were
changed from half-hour to hour periods.
Cluff stressed an expanded, trained
faculty and led the way with his de-
grees. He encouraged competitive
sports and school spirit. The Alumni
Association was established in 1893,
with George H. Brimhall as its first
president. The first two school news-
papers were started, and the students
heartily accepted Cluff's introduction
of yells and cheers, much to the con-
sternation of some Church officials.

In the summer of 1892, Cluff estab-
lished the first summer school in the
state of Utah and brought as educa-
tional psychologist and lecturer Colonel
Francis W. Parker of Chicago, who
attracted many students from all over
the state. Colonel Parker was so popu-
lar that a school in Provo was named in
his honor. Many other national leaders
followed as lecturers in the summers.

While he was away for his master's
degree, Cluff met and employed a
charming teacher, Miss Abbey Celestia
Hale, niece of Edward Everett Hale, U.S.

Senate chaplain and author of "Man
Without a Country." She was the first
non-Mormon to be employed on the
regular faculty, remaining three years
as director of the training school.

On July 20, 1895, the Board of
Trustees directed that the term principal
should apply to the heads of depart-
ments, and president to the chief officer
of the institution. In 1898 the Board
conferred on President Cluff the addi-
tional degree of Doctor of Didactics. At
Dr. Cluff's suggestion the Board estab-
lished a Collegiate Department on
October 16, 1896, and thereafter the
school awarded degrees for college
work.

One of the highlights of his career as
president, which no doubt stemmed
from his interest in archaeology, was his
sponsorship in 1900 of a South Ameri-
can expedition to engage in archaeologi-
cal study of Book of Mormon sites.
George H. Brimhall again served as
acting president. The expedition re-
turned on February 7, 1902, having met
with little success.

At the request of President Cluff, the
school was designated as Brigham
Young University on October 3, 1903.
In this year the Board accepted Cluff's
resignation, and he was formally re-
leased on December 23. He moved to
Mexico to establish a rubber plantation,
but his life there was one of hardships,
misplaced confidences, losses from theft
and deception, and finally failure. He
returned to California, where he was in
mercantile business the rest of his life.

The BYU Alumni Association con-
ferred on him the Distinguished Service
Award in 1946. He died on June 16,
1948, at ninety. The Benjamin Cluff,
Jr. Plant Science Laboratory was named
in his honor on May 7, 1957.

(Top)

January 4, 1892, was a high point in the
history of Brigham Young Academy;
for on that day Dr. Karl G. Maeser was
released as principal. Professor Ben-
jamin Cluff, Jr., was installed as new
principal, and the new Academy Build-
ing was dedicated in impressive services.

(After construction of the College
Building in 1898 the name of the Acad-
emy Building was changed to High
School Building, and in 1922 President
Franklin S. Harris changed it again to
Education Building, its present name.)

On dedication day just before noon,
all of the students met in the assembly
room of the warehouse, where Dr.
Maeser spoke to them on the blessings
they had enjoyed in that old home, and
lifted his voice in a benediction. Then
he led his students in a procession from
the old warehouse to the new building,
in all probability the finest school
building in the state of Utah at that
time. When the procession reached the
outside of the building. Dr. Maeser
looked up at it and said, "The old man
taught school in a log cabin, but they
have built a palace for his boys." At the
entrance the double line of students
separated and stood with bared heads
as the faculty and dignitaries marched
between them into the new home.

The meeting was held in Room D.
Among the visiting guests were Gover-
nor A. L. Thomas, Presidents Wilford
Woodruff, George Q. Cannon, and

Joseph F. Smith. Local authorities in-
cluded President A. O. Smoot, David
John, Harvey H. Cluff, Judge J. D.
Jones, Karl G. Maeser, Bishop Myron
Tanner, and others. Because of poor
health President Woodruff excused
himself from offering the dedicatory
prayer, and President Cannon officiated
in his stead.

Dr. Maeser gave an emotional fare-
well address, which left most of the
audience in tears. He said that while
Don Carlos Young (son of Brigham
Young) was the recognized architect of
the building, the original plan had been
drawn by himself under the inspiration
and guidance of Brigham Young in a
dream shortly after the death of Presi-
dent Young and even before the Lewis
Building fire. "When in future years
people shall ask for the name of the wise
designer of this edifice, let the answer
be: Brigham Young," he asserted.

A movement to build the new school
had begun immediately after the Lewis
Building fire, when cash ‘ donations
amounting to approximately $2,000
were received, sufficient to purchase
one city block and lay the foundation of

the building on what is now University
Avenue between Fifth and Sixth North
streets. It was purchased from Jesse
William Lewis, the same man who
had built the Lewis Building. Ground-
breaking was held on May 21, 1884,
and the foundation work was done, but
construction was suspended for six
years for lack of funds.

Overcrowding at the warehouse
forced a push to complete the building
in 1891, and A. O. Smoot, David John,
H. H. Cluff, and Wilson Dusenberry all
signed personal notes to insure the
progress of the project. In addition, a
loan of $50,000 was obtained by mort-
gaging additional property, including
the Academy Building block.

The building was considered one of
the largest of its kind in the Rocky
Mountain region and was designed to
accommodate one thousand students.
It was a beautiful, massive, ornate
structure, but in the beginning it lacked
some conveniences. Outside toilets (at
left in accompanying photo) were used
for ten years. Only part of the building
was provided with warm air forced over
steam radiators at first by a steam
engine and later by an electric motor.
The remainder of the building was
heated with coal stoves. The building
was constructed with two floors, an
attic, and a basement. The attic was
finished for the Art Department and
the Geology Department. In the be-
ginning the Academy had no gym-
nasium and no dressing rooms or
showers for the physical education
classes held in the large southeast room
of the basement.

(Top left)

The Academy Building (as seen about
1897 in this photo) had some electric
lights. However, there could not have
been very many, according to the faculty
minutes of March 9, 1892: “Brother

Isgreen, custodian, reported that the
bill, submitted by the electric company,
was incorrect as all the light that the
Academy could possibly have used,
counting the hours, would have cost
only $5.80 for February, whereas the
bill submitted was $19.75.“ (As a mat-
ter of interest, the electric bill for the
Brigham Young University for the
month of February, 1973, was $59,276.)
Electric lighting apparently was in-
stalled throughout the Academy Build-
ing in the next few years.

(Top right)

These were the old wooden, open stair-
ways in the Education Building, stair-
ways worn hollow by the scuffing of
millions of students' footsteps. Because
of the fire hazard, they were removed
in the summer of 1960 and replaced
with stairways of steel and concrete,
and with brick outside the building.
Courtesy of Homer Wakefield.

(Bottom)

The art class in the High School (Edu-
cation) Building met at the top of the
stairs in what was called the attic. It
was later finished into more suitable
classrooms.

(Top left )

Room D in the Academy Building was
used for various purposes and was
completely filled as a study room on
this occasion. It was here that the
dedication was held and that assemblies
were conducted until College Hall was
built in 1898.

(Top right)

At the suggestion of Benjamin Cluff,
Jr., new articles of incorporation were
adopted on July 18, 1896, making
Brigham Young Academy a Church
school, and the Church assumed the
school's indebtedness of $80,000. At
this time Utah had become a state, and
the U.S. government had returned con-
fiscated property to the Church.

The twelve incorporators were Brig-
ham Young, Jr. (who became president
of the Board after the death of A. O.
Smoot in 1895), George Q. Cannon,
Myron Tanner, H. H. Cluff, Wilson H.
Dusenberry, Karl G. Maeser, David
John, Susa Y. Gates, Reed Smoot,
Thomas R. Cutler, George D. Snell, and
J. Don Carlos Young.

(Bottom left )

The first faculty under Benjamin Cluff,
Jr. posed on the steps of the new Acad-
emy Building in 1892: 1. Emil Maeser,
2. George F. Phillips, 3. Joseph B.
Keeler, 4. Lars E. Eggertson, 5. Ottilie
Maeser, 6. Mary Woodruff, 7. Bryant S.
Hinckley, 8. Edward H. Holt, 9. N. L.
Nelson, 10. Anna K. Craig, 11. Benja-

min Cluff, Jr., 12. Irene B. Mendenhall,
13. Milton H. Hardy, 14. Amy Brown,
15. Olof W. Andelin, 16. Henry E.
Giles, 17. George H. Brimhall, 18. Wal-
ter M. Wolfe, 19. Christina D. Young,
20. Wilford M. McKendrick.

(Bottom right)

George Q. Cannon, a counselor in the
First Presidency of the Church, became
president of the board in 1897 and
served until 1901, when Church Presi-
dent Lorenzo Snow became board
president. President Cannon had
favored the founding of the Academy
and was a firm spiritual and financial
friend of the school from its beginning.
BYU named Cannon Center in the
Helaman Halls in his honor.

( Top left)

Church President Lorenzo Snow served
as president of the Brigham Young
Academy Board of Trustees from May
to October, 1901, the first Church
President to hold that position. There-
after, Presidents of the Church, rather
than local officials, always served in
that position. However, local members
remained on the board until 1939,
when the governing body was com-
posed entirely of General Authorities.

(Top right)

Church President Joseph F. Smith served
as president of Brigham Young Univer-
sity Board of Trustees from 1901 to
1918 and was a frequent visitor and
speaker at the school.

(Center)

In the 1890s faculty members were paid
partly in produce from the Bishop's
Storehouse in Provo. This order, dated
November 14, 1896, and signed by BYA
Treasurer Wilson H. Dusenberry, was
drawn on the Provo Bishop's Store-
house in favor of B. S. Hinckley for
$45.00 in produce. The checks were
endorsed on the back for receipt of hay,
grain, dairy products, potatoes and
other vegetables, and general mer-
chandise.

(Bottom)

This was the view of Center Street in
Provo, looking east from Main (now
University Avenue), in the early days
of the city. The Knight Block now
occupies the corner, left, where the
Provo Cooperative Institution was then
located. According to old maps of
Provo, the square brick building at the
far end of the block (with steps) was
the tithing office, where the Saints
paid their tithing in kind.

(Top)

The class of 1896 was photographed in
front of the Academy Building in 1893,
one year after completion of the struc-
ture. Notice that there were no trees,
shrubs, or grass around the building.
Close examination of the photograph
also reveals that the students had
brought chairs from the building and
were sitting and standing on a railroad
track in the middle of the muddy street.
The track carried "Puffing Billy," the
little steam engine which ran along
University Avenue and west on Center
Street to Utah Lake.

( Center )

The little railroad of Provo City Railway
Company was built in 1889 and ran
until 1896 on University Avenue and
on Center Street to the Provo Resort on
the shores of Utah Lake. Pulled by
"Puffing Billy," a little steam engine, it
frightened the horses in the street,
sometimes jumped the track, and often
was stopped by cows on the track.
Business boomed during the summers
when the sweltering Provo residents
sought relaxation at the beach, but for
the rest of the year business lagged.

(Bottom)

West Center Street in Provo during the
1890s was sometimes a sea of mud, as
seen here in front of the handsome new
Taylor Brothers Store. Notice the
telegraph poles in the middle of the
street and the track for "Puffing Billy."

(Top left )

Staff of the B.Y.A. Student (1891), the
first student publication of Brigham
Young Academy, included, back row,
left to right: E. G. Gowans, George A.
Ramsey, O. W. Andelin, Richard R.
Lyman, E. S. Hinckley, W. W. McKend-
rick; front row: Mae Bell Thurman,

Ida Alleman, Inez Knight, and Mary
Lyman.

THE B. Y. A. STUDENT.

■'SELF EFFORT EDUCATES."

VOL. I PROVO CITY. yTAH, TUESDAY, MARCH 21. 1891. NUMBER !*

(Top right)

The first student publication of the
Academy was the B.Y.A. Student.
Several other publications, such as The
Business Journal and The Normal soon
followed, but they were published for
specific departments of the Academy.
An Academy-wide publication. The
White and Blue, began publication in
1897 and continued to 1920, with
Ernest L. Wilkinson as the last editor.
In 1921 the Y News began, and that
was replaced by The Universe in 1948.
The White and Blue at first resembled
in format the B.Y.A. Student and other
departmental publications but soon took
on a magazine format, then regular
newspaper layout.

(Center)

Because of increased enrollment in
1896, the eight grades and kindergarten
of the Normal Training School were
transferred to the Central Building on
the southeast corner of First North and
Academy Avenue, where the First
Security Bank now stands. The classes
were held on the upper floors of the
building, partially obscured in this
photograph by the Farrer Brothers and
Co. float in the Pioneer Day Parade,
July 24, 1898.

(Bottom )

In 1891 Benjamin Cluff, Jr., organized a
Normal College at Brigham Young
Academy. In this 1898 photograph he
is teaching a class in the Academy
Building that is, according to the beau-
tiful writing on the blackboard, a
"Brigham Young Academy Theory of
Teaching" class.

THE NORMAL.

Vol. L PROVO. UTAH. SEPTEMBER 24. 1891. No. 2.

BOARD OF_EDITORS.

Minting Editor, 0. W. ANDELIN.

PUBLISHED Bl WEEKLY DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR

NORMAL ASSOCIATION
SrnfCMPTloX, 91.00.

Editorials.

TT is gratifying to note the hearty reception
1 our paper has already received, both from
press and public. Hear what the Enquirer says:
"Tbo enterprise of the normals attending the
B. Y. Academy is worthy of emulation by other
institutions of learning. This year they are
publishing The Norm - i. the first issue of which
has reached our table. It is gotten up in very
neat style, in magazine form, with a cut of the
new academy building as it will appear when
finished, on the front of the cover. The form is
about the same size as the Juvenile Instructor,
published at Salt Lake, and contains eight |>ages
of reading matter. The students intend issuing
The Normal hi weekly during the school year,
and it will be mailed to any part of the United
States or Canada for $1 per annum. All who
have seen The Normal have naught but praises
for the well-edited matter which it contains, and
for it* fine typographical work. O. W. Ande
lin is managing editor, B. S. Hinckley, business
mnnnger, and the typographical work is done lty
the Enquirer job office."

We certamly feel encouraged.

THE extreme necessity for completing the
Academy building before many weeks pass
by becomes more appaYent day by day. What
the students have to endure from the noise of the

cars every day is exasperating. At times it ia
impossible to proceed with the various classes
aud hear what i- said. The room* are unsuitable
for school work and the ventilation in some o
the rooms is simply a farce. Such an impure
condition of the air cannot but work injury to
the health of students and teachers. ltoside*
this, the light is very poorly distributed, and
wc have personally talked with a number who
have had their eyea weakened from thus cause

Even these conditions arc only a circumstance
compared with what it will be in the winter,
when the days are cloudy and dark, making it
necessary to have lamps lighted in some of the
rooms during the daytime. Just think of it !
Having to study by lump light, both night and
day ! Aud what exposure must not the physi-
cal nature be subjected to w ith some students
sitting so near the stove that their desks are
scorched, while others are thirty or forty feet
distant fueing the chilly draught! of air from the
halls.

We have in mind at present several case* in
which students contracted severe colds, sore
throats, and cramps of the lower limbs, tiecause
of these unfavorable conditions.

It is to lie boiled that nothing will hinder the
important work of completing the new building
with all jKissible dispatch.

WE have been informed that a car load of
furniture for the new Academy is loaded
and ready to start, if it is not on the way already.
There are streamers on the sides of the car with
the following inscription, “ Tbi» car is loaded
with the celebrated ‘Orion’ school furniture for
the 'Brigham Young Academy, Provo, Utah.”

THIS is the time to study, not the time to
play nor to spark. If w« attempt to study
and to spark at the same time, both will be a
failure. It is proper and necessary to exercise
charity and love to each other, but not that kind
of love which breeds contempt. Avoid making
associations with the opposite sex which, when
the year closes, will have to be broken off to the
distress of the young lady and possibly of the
young man also. Treat each other with ull
possible courtesy and kindness, but do not go
any further than this. There will l>e plenty of
girls after school is over, so also will there lie

Journal of Pedagogy

Published /T\or)tf?ly urjder the auspices of tb? Department of
Experimental peda$o$y, Britan Youp$ /leadepiy

VOL. I. PROVO, UTAH, DECEMBER, 18H4. NO. 1.

THE POET'S NOVEMBER DAYS.

O sunless days 1

O days, with every hope of life and summer sunshioc gone ;

When wintry winds like lost despair.

Through leafless ireetops moan, and moan, and moan

When earth, our mother, plains forsakeoly, that she is old.

Wraps close her cloak of wintry clouds,

And shiveriog weeps within its dusky fold.

O joyless days !

O days, when all our human griefs seem hopeless, sad, and de<p
We fain would sob ourselves to rest
Like her in dreamless, soul- forgetting sleep.

O lingering days I

Poor earlb, tbou'ri old and lone and soon must come ttfe nighp
When thou must lie within thy shroud
So cold, so still, so pure in spotless white.

The sun anon shall bring ihee life and sweet maternity,

Thy veins again shall leap with joy,

And youth and beauty shall return to thee*

Ah patient days !

My heart, that with the earih has wept and with her longed to die.

Must wait alone through wintry da)*,

The quickening of its heavenly spring in God's eternity.

Chrutina D. Yo**c.

“ FORGET THYSELF."

‘Self-consciousness is a characteristic of the young teacher's
first year in school. It paralyzes his best endeavors, and sends
hirn home discouraged many a night. Certamly to be always
thinking how you look, and whether your pupils are criticising you;
to hesitate in pronunciaiion and half-swallow the word for fear the
accent may be wrong; to stand stock-still lest your movements be
thought ungraceful, to be fearful that vour hair is disarranged or

(Top left)

This is the first page from a copy of The
Normal, published beginning in 1891
by the Normal Association.

(Top right)

This was a group of students in the
Normal College in 1892, including
Alonzo Hinckley, left; Louise Keller
Cherry, unidentified, unidentified,
O. W. Andelin, Bryant S. Hinckley, Ida
Alleman Taylor, Wilford McKendrick,
F. M. Warner, Cora Groesbeck Snow.

(Center left)

This is the front page of Volume 1,
Number 1 of The Journal of Pedagogy,
a monthly publication under the aus-
pices of the Department of Experi-
mental Pedagogy of Brigham Young
Academy, published during the Cluff
administration.

(Bottom)

Inez Knight Allen, a student in 1891
and a member of the staff of the B.Y.A.
Student publication, poses as Miss
Liberty in a dramatic production. She

was a daughter of Jesse Knight, in-
dustrialist-benefactor of the school, and
wife of R. Eugene Allen, BYU faculty
member and administrator. She was the
mother of Dr. Mark K. Allen, BYU pro-
fessor of psychology; J. Knight Allen,
faculty member at BYU and Stanford
University; Joseph K. Allen, vice-
president of Utah International Com-
pany; and Robert K. Allen, Provo busi-
nessman. She was appointed "matron”
(dean of women) in 1900.

(Center right)

Principal Cluff poses with the first class
to graduate from the new Academy
Building (1892). Members are, back
row, left to right; unidentified, uni-
dentified, Jacob Magleby, Principal
Cluff, G. E. Robinson, Lewis Bushman,
Alonzo Hinckley, George Powelson,
unidentified; seated: J. W. Dunyon,

Detta Caffrey, Louise Keller, E. G.
Gowans, Irene B. Mendenhall, Frank
Olsen, unidentified.

(Top left )

This class in history of pedagogy in
1893 included, front row, left to right:
J. W. Booth, Collie Robison, Professor
George H. Brimhall, C. D. Ray, Henry
Peterson; back row: Weston Vernon,

John C. Swensen, and P. C. Evans.

(Top right)

The establishment of a Commercial
College in 1891 during the Cluff ad-
ministration brought about important
changes in the Academy. Here is a
typewriting class in the Academy Build-
ing in 1901. The note on the black-
board states: “Section I, Typewriting
Department, Commercial College,
Brigham Young Academy, 1901. The
best positions seek Brigham Young
Academy Commercial Graduates. Enter
now and get in line for promotion."

(Center)

Graduating class in 1895. Back row:
Erastus Fillerup, A. B. Christensen, Vie
Bronson, B. S. Hinckley, Vilate Elliott,
Edward H. Holt, May Ashworth, Frank
Cutler; second row: Gomer Richards,
Professor Lars E. Eggertson, Charles
Fillerup, A. B. Anderson; front row:
Alice Louise Reynolds, Jennie Brimhall,
Mae Bell Thurman.

(Bottom)

The Commercial College also included
a class in banking and finance, seen
here complete with tellers' cages for
realistic practice.

(Top left)

Popular also was the bookkeeping class
in the Commercial College.

(Top center)

The official publication of the Com-
mercial College was The Business
Journal, started in 1891. This is the
front page of the fourth edition.

(Top right)

Maud May Babcock, right, later the
grand lady of theater at the University
of Utah, leads a girls' gymnasium class
in a baton exercise on the grounds near
the Academy Building in about 1893.

(Center)

Colleges and classes also conducted
their activities and graduated in close
knit groups. Interclass and interschool
athletic competition was instituted by
President Benjamin Cluff, Jr., as shown
here by the Commercial College track
team of 1902. The "C" on their early-
day track suits, of course, stood for
"Commercial/' and the group undoubt-
edly won the trophies exhibited by the
reclining Thomas Smith.

(Bottom)

Commercial graduates of 1903 were,
front row, left to right: Royal J. Mur-
dock, Mamie Stallings, Robert Price;
second row: John E. Hayes, May

Robinson, Arthur Chadwick, Tom
Smith, Edna Dennis; back row; Thilda
Anderberg, Gee Salisbury, Sadie Cas-
sidy, Nels G. Hall, Birdie Billings, Fred
G. Richmond, Goldie Gillespie, James
Steele, and Rozelle Holladay.

(Top)

Dr. Phillips's chemistry class, April
1893: (1) Dr. Phillips, (2) Weston

Vernon, (3) Thomas J. Yates, (4)
Charles Gowans, (5) Charles Fillerup,
(6) Murray King, (7) Stephen W. Ross,
(8) P. C. Evans, (9) Jeanette Richards,
(10) Clarence Snow, (11) Morrison,
(12) Warner, (13) John C. Swensen,
(14) Joseph Snow, (15) Cora Groesbeck,
and (16) Ida Alleman.

(Center)

This Art Club posed in 1896 on the
original fountain in front of the Acad-
emy Building. Teacher of the group
was John B. Fairbanks (front row with
beard), who later also was the official
photographer and artist on the Cluff
expedition to South America. The Art
Department was organized in 1893
under the noted Utah artist John Hafen,
with Christina D. Young as his assistant.
He shared the art teaching duties with
Edwin Evans and John B. Fairbanks,
both of whom also became famous Utah
painters.

(Bottom)

This was a class of the Domestic Sci-
ence Department started in 1896 with
laboratory periods under the direction
of Susa Young Gates and Leah Dunford
(Widtsoe). A Ladies Work Department
had been started in 1881 during the
Maeser administration by Zina Young
Williams Card. In this photograph
Zina Young Williams Card and Susa
Young Gates are the fourth and fifth
figures in the third row. Notice the
coal stove at left.

(Top)

The cooking class in 1900 included
three young men among the pretty,
aproned young ladies. Only a few of
the girls were identified on the old
photograph but the boys, probably be-
cause their presence was unusual, were
remembered: Silas Brimhall, Vasco

Call, and Leonard Tanner.

(Center left)

These fair young ladies were students at
Brigham Young Academy before the
turn of the century. Unfortunately, the
only ones identified on the appealing old
photograph are Catherine Snydergaard
Frisby, top left, who became a faculty
member, and Louise Whitaker Cheney,
center left. They can also be found on
the front row of the 1900 cooking class.

(Center right)

A Domestic Science Department began
under the direction of Susa Y. Gates
and Leah Dunford (Widtsoe) in 1896,
with laboratory work included. This is
a typical sewing class of that time.

(Bottom)

Brigham T. Higgs, right center, was
teacher of carpentry and superintendent
of buildings and grounds from 1897 to
1921. Here he teaches a woodworking
class in the Academy Building. The
note on the board states: "One of the
BYA Workshops."

(Top left)

With the rapid expansion of college
work and enrollments, President Cluff
asked for the erection of a college build-
ing. Since no money was forthcoming
from the Church, Reed Smoot, as chair-
man of the executive committee of the
Board, took the initiative of raising the
money and offered to obtain a contri-
bution of $1,000 from each of ten per-
sons. The plan was accepted. The
donors were President Wilford Wood-
ruff, President George Q. Cannon,
Joseph Fielding Smith, Reed Smoot,
Jesse Knight, Charles Edwin Loose,
Alfred William McCune, Amanda Inez
Knight, Stephen L. Chipman, and Jesse
William Knight. The cost exceeded
$10,000, but Reed Smoot made up the
difference.

Faculty members were asked to use
part of their vacations to interest Utah
residents in education and to aid in

raising money for the equipment for the
new building. The furniture was paid
for partly by the Alumni Association
and partly by the sale of BYA property.

The College Building was dedicated
on May 26, 1898, by President Joseph
F. Smith.

In the accompanying photograph,
the High School (Academy) Building is
on the left and the Training Building
(1902) on the right. The inscription
over the archway reads: "Brigham

Young Academy; Collegiate Depart-
ment." The portico on the second floor
was later removed and the building
built out to the square.

(Bottom)

Reed Smoot, chairman of the executive
committee of the Board, who spear-
headed the fund drive to construct the
College Building in 1898, obtaining
$1,000 each from ten prominent per-
sons and who then personally con-
tributed the difference between that
income and the cost of the building.
Back in 1876, Reed Smoot was the first
student of the original 29 to register
with Professor Karl G. Maeser. He
later became a United States Senator
from Utah and a member of the Council
of the Twelve Apostles.

(Top right)

After the death of President Abraham O.
Smoot in 1895, the mantle of financial
benefactor of the school fell upon Jesse
Knight. Born in Nauvoo in 1845 and
brought to Utah at age five, he married
Amanda McEwan in 1869. They es-
tablished a ranch near Payson, where
most of their family was born and
reared.

Jesse had lost interest in the Church,
but in 1887 he experienced a reconver-

sion after the miraculous healing of his
children from typhoid fever, and there-
after was not only a faithful worker but
one of its largest contributors as well.
When his mining ventures in the Tintic
District resulted in a rich ore strike in
1890, he paid all of his tithing for the
years he had missed, with compound
interest. Much of his wealth was in-
vested in projects for the benefit of the
state and the Church. Substantial
tithing, sometimes paid in advance, a
$10,000 loan to the Church in 1896,
and a $10,000 gift to leading brethren
in 1898 to redeem them from serious
financial difficulties, came at moments
when financial disaster could have
fallen on the Church.

"Uncle Jesse," as he is affectionately
called, had special faith and interest in
Brigham Young University. All six of
his children and eighteen of his twenty-
four grandchildren attended the school.

The Maeser Memorial Building was
completed in 1911 at a cost of $130,000,
of which the Knight family contributed
$65,000. His other contributions in-
cluded 500 acres of land on the Orem
Bench, part of the land for the upper
campus, a blacksmith shop, and $15,000
for the Training School Building. More-
over, he and his family were among the
ten principal donors to the College
Building. Their largest gift was the
donation of Blue Bench Irrigation bonds
with a maturity date of 1934, the prin-
cipal and interest from which amounted
to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Money was borrowed from this fund to
build the Amanda Knight, Allen, and
Knight-Mangum halls.

Jesse Knight died on March 14, 1921.
In 1960 the Jesse Knight Building,
which houses the College of Business,
was named in his honor.

(Top) C-100

This photograph, taken from Fifth
North Street, shows how the new Col-
lege Building (1898) at right was joined
to the Academy Building (1892) on the
left.

(Center)

An assembly in College Hall in 1902.
(Bottom)

This is College Hall as it appeared after
its remodeling into a theater-type audi-
torium in 1930. Before that time it had
the platform, but the proscenium arch
had to be carried from the old Black-
smith Shop across the street and erected
for every play or opera. The arch was
built in permanently in 1930. Thou-
sands of assemblies, conferences, mu-
sicals, theatricals, debates, and lectures
were held here until construction of the
Joseph Smith Auditorium in 1941 and
even after that time.

(Top left)

A little theater was located on the top
floor at the east end of the College
Building. It was the scene of many per-
formances by individual artists, re-
citalists, elocutionists, and ensembles.
This photograph of an orchestra led by
Mose Gudmansen was taken in about
1915.

(Top right)

The Provo Tabernacle, located on the
west side of University Avenue between
Center and First South streets, has
figured prominently in the history of
Brigham Young University. It was built
by the Saints of Utah Valley at a time
when money was difficult to obtain.
Fifteen years, from 1883 to 1898, were
required for its construction, largely
because of financial limitations.

From 1930 to 1941, when the Joseph
Smith Building was completed, BYU
commencement exercises were held in

the building, the procession proceeding
from the Education Building to the
Tabernacle, a distance of six blocks.
The Tabernacle was used for lyceum
concerts even into the 1950s, and organ
recitals of the Music Department con-
tinued there through the 1960s. Some
of the artists who have appeared there
have been violinist Fritz Kreisler, pianist
Sergei Rachmaninoff, baritone Paul
Robeson, soprano Bidu Sayao, the
Minneapolis Symphony (1918), the
Metropolitan Quartet (1916), opera
star Emma Lucy Gates (1923), the Bach
Festival (1934), and dozens of others.

The dome in the center of the build-
ing was removed later because of ex-
cessive weight.

(Bottom left)

This photograph of Benjamin Cluff, Jr.,
with his faculty was believed taken in
1900. Row 1, left to right: Joseph L.
Horne, Anthony C. Lund, Walter Wolfe,
George H. Brimhall, Benjamin Cluff, Jr.,
Joseph B. Keeler, Edwin S. Hinckley,
Nels L. Nelson, John C. Swensen; row

MA'l' 2 + |338

tf>Hons or t

COLLEGE BUILDINc.

wilford woodruff
GEORGE QUAYLE CANNON. |
JOSEPH FIELDING SMITH
REED SMOOT.

JESSE KNICHT.

CHARLES EDWIN LOOSE
ALFRED WILLIAM MC-CUNE,
AMANDA INEZ KNIGHT
STEPHEN L CHIPMAN
JESSE WILLIAM KNIGHT

2: unidentified, Aretta Young, Mary

Woodruff, Catherine Snydergaard
(Frisby), Christina D. Young, Lillian H.
Cannon, Louise Whittaker, Ida Smoot
Dusenberry, Alice Louise Reynolds;
row 3: Valton Merrill Pratt, unidenti-
fied, Hermese Peterson, Peter Joseph
Jensen, Thomas Court, unidentified,
John T. Miller; row 4: Frederick Q.

Warnick, unidentified, Josiah E. Hick-
man, Edward H. Holt, D. Foster Cluff,
James A. Oliver, and Brigham T. Higgs.

(Bottom right)

This marble tablet is mounted in the
hallway of the College Building.

(Top)

The staff of the White and Blue news-
paper, one of the publications started at
the Academy by President Cluff, in-
cluded in 1902, back row: Emma Wood-
house, left; Wallace Lowrey, Katherine
Harvey, Roy Murdock, Pearl Potter;
front row: Nellie Schofield, Eugene

Roberts (editor), Georgia Hoagland.

(Center)

Dramatic productions had been given
infrequently at BYA, and it was not
until the appointment of Miss Miriam
Nelke (center) that a sustained program
of dramatics began. The petite and
charming lady had studied and taught at
several eastern universities and was
head of the Fort Worth University Elo-
cution Department when she visited a
sister in Provo in 1900 and formed some
summer classes. Impressed, President
Cluff invited her to organize classes in
oral English and dramatic arts at BYA,
although she was not a member of the
Church. She started a regular schedule
of dramatic productions, took them on
tour, made the program self-sustaining,
organized elocution recitals, instilled
new grace and dignity in her students,
and won great popularity.

Miss Nelke left BYU in 1908 to or-
ganize stock companies, but she was
never forgotten. Her Provo admirers
and former students organized the
Nelke Club in 1916, and the Nelke Ex-
perimental Theater in the Harris Fine
Arts Center was named in her honor.

In this 1903 elocution class photo are,
top row, left to right: Beulah Storrs,
Edna Berg, Hattie Redd; middle row:
Emma Woodhouse, Viola Busby, Miss
Miriam Nelke, Pearl Adams, Jennie
Dusenberry; first row: Nora Young,

Emily J. Smith, Hannah Dunn, Sadie
Preston.

(Bottom)

This large Brigham Young Academy
Choir was conducted in 1902-03 by
Anthony C. Lund, second row center,
who later became director of the Salt
Lake Tabernacle Choir (1915-35).

(Top)

Graduates of the six-year normal course
in 1900 posed in their formal graduation
suits and dresses, bearing the diplomas
and bouquets which were part of the
occasion. The graduates were, standing,
left to right: Eugene Berry, Cora

Alexander Cluff, Joseph L. Horne, Eliza-
beth Maiben Magleby, Thomas D. Rees;
seated: Guy C. Wilson, Ovena Jorgen-
sen Oakley, R. Leo Bird, Annie Pike
Greenwood (center), and Lillian H.
Cannon. Courtesy of R. John Blake.

"The College Song," written by Annie
Pike Greenwood (previous picture), first
appeared in the White and Blue on May
15, 1899, with original music by J. J.
McClellan that was later revised by
William F. Hanson. When the initials
changed from "BYA" to "BYU" in
1903, poetess Annie also made some
slight revisions in the lyrics to provide
the proper rhyme. The song is still sung
at important University occasions, such
as commencement and the annual be-
ginning faculty meeting.

All hail the College that we love
At the throne, the throne of wisdom's sway,
Oh, let us lift our songs above
The thronging multitude today.

No pride of riches here may sue;

The head, the heart, the hand,

United must be true —

Be true to thee, our White and Blue,

Whet i they join our happy band.

Chorus

Then cheer anew for the B.Y.U.

We'll raise the standard — bear it through;
We’ve come to work, to live, to do;

Our hearts are true to the B.Y.U.

There is no emblem half so sweet
As our colors, colors pure and true.
There is no banner that we greet

Like thee, our dear old White and Blue.
No youth its beauty e'er denies,

Such thoughts no maid allows,

For Blue is in her eyes,

For Blue is in her bonnie eyes,

And of white her thoughtful brow.

( Bottom )

One of the innovations President Cluff
brought back from his studies at Michi-
gan University was athletic competition,
which included both interclass and
interschool games, complete with yells
and cheers unheard of up to that time
in Provo (and which shocked many
Church leaders). The first BYA foot-
ball team in 1896 played the University
of Utah (BYA— 12, U of U — 0), the
Elks, the Crescents, the YMCA of Salt
Lake City, the Wheel Club of Denver,
and Westminster College. BYA won
the championship.

The team included, back row, left to
right: Eugene McArthur, president of
the Athletic Association; Heber Larsen,
A. D. Miller, Dave Hyde, Alma Car-
bine, Walter Hasler, manager; middle
row: Nephi Otteson, Jesse LeFevre,

Orville Larsen, Hans Paulsen, John
Peterson, Andrew Peterson; front row:
Albert Fillerup, Sam Hinckley, Ben C.
Call, and Frank Cox.

(Top)

In its second year of competition the
BYA football team won the champion-
ship, although it is not clear what con-
stituted the league. As the result of an
accidental football death in Utah in
1900, football was banned from all
Church schools until 1919.

Members of this team in 1897 were,
reclining: Albert Fillerup, left, John A.
Johansen; seated: Bert Miller, Fred-

erick Ewell, John Judd, Dell Brown,
David Hall; standing: Frank Cox,

Bayard Mendenhall, David Hyde, John
Petersen, William M. Hughes, Orvil
Larson, and Jesse LeFevre.

( Center )

Not men, but girls, played the first
basketball at Brigham Young Academy,
and the BYA won the championship in
1900. Here with their manager, E.
Kimball, left, are Ovena Jorgensen,
Serepta Sevey, Maud McArthur, Nora
Jorgensen, Aretta Snow, Ethel Crane,
and M. R. Gates. Their costumes in-
cluded bloomers, caps, and ties. Cour-
tesy Lynn Wakefield.

(Bottom)

At first considered a ladies' exercise,
basketball was taken up by men at BYA
in 1902 under Coach W. A. Colton.
This first men's basketball team in-
cluded Hyrum (or Thomas) Kirkham,
left; Elmer (or Roy) Beck, Isaac Riley
Pierce, Fred G. Richmond, Delbert
Webb, Nels William Knudsen, Sam
Dorrity, and Morgan Adams.

(Top)

This art class was costumed for a special
occasion in the festooned room D in
the Academy Building in 1903. At that
time it was customary for groups and
classes to display banners bearing their
motto. This one reads: "1903, Industry
and Integrity."

(Center)

The ninth annual reunion of the BYA
Alumni Association was held on May
31, 1900, and included a reception at
1:00 p.m. in room D, general exercises
at 1:30 p.m. in College Hall, a business
meeting, "lunch" at 8:00 p.m. in room
6, and a ball at 9:00 p.m. in room D.
These pages from the printed program
show the 1:30 p.m. exercises and the
dances scheduled for the evening ball.
These were general dances for every-
body, not demonstrations.

(Bottom)

This was the membership certificate of
the Church Normal Training School at
Brigham Young Academy issued to
Elizabeth Maiben in 1897 and signed by
Benjamin Cluff, Jr. and E. H. Holt. This
was the equivalent of a BYA activity
card for the holder, who was "entitled
to all the privileges thereof."

$ Genera i. Exercises * •

I130 P. M.

Duet Miss Ida Peterson and Mr O. Kihkham
Invocation Pres. David John

Piano Solo Miss Monahan,

President’s Address L. E. EggerTSEN

Male Quartette

Messrs. Lund. Clayton, Kirkham. Jensen
Address, Apostle F. M. Cowley

Sentiment. Dr. Karl G. Maesbr

Solo, Horace S. Ensign

Oration, Hon. Joshua Greenwood

“The Original Board,” Wilson H. Dusknberry
Sentiment Mrs. A. W. McCune

“Brigham Young. ’’ Acting Pres. G. H. Brimhall
Solo Miss Ella Derr

Benediction Apostle Reed Smoot

| Program of Dance «

1 Alumni March, led by First Vice-Prest. Jennie
Brimhall Knight.

2. Waltz.

3. Plain Quadrille.

4. Rage Quadrille.

5. Chicago Glide.

6. Triangle Quadrille.

7. Two-Step.

8. Lancers.

9. Waltz.

10. National Quadrille.

11. Two-Step Polka.

12. Plain Quadrille.

13. Fascination Schottische.

14. Plain Quadrille.

15. Rage Quadrille.

16. De la Grande.

17. Triangle Quadrille.

18. Schottische.

19. Waltz Quadrille.

20. Chicago Glide.

21. Plain Quadrille.

22. “Home, Sweet Home.”
Extras.

Songs and Sentiments du

ii g evening.

No. ii()G

5RIGHA/VI yOONG ACADE/Viy.

CViitrch gaining Sc ho0y

CERTIFICATE.

having complied a pith all entrance requirements of

THE CHURCH NORMAL TRAINING SCHOOL,

field in connection with the fBrigham 'Young jfcademij, is herebg declared a member of said
|| School, and is entitled to all the privileges thereof.

(Top)

President Cluff had desired to pursue
archaeological research since his mis-
sion days in Hawaii. These hopes were
realized in 1900 when he was given
authority to organize an expedition to
Central and South America to engage
in Book of Mormon archaeological
study and collect botanical, zoological,
and geological specimens. President
Cluff received a leave of absence, and
George H. Brimhall again served as
acting president during his absence.

On April 17, a group of twenty-three
well-equipped men left the College
Building, led by a brass band and
followed by most of the student body,
who rode as far as Spanish Fork. There
a grand reception was held, food was
served, and fine speeches were made,
after which the group resumed its trek
southward.

At Nogales, where they were blocked
from entering Mexico, they were visited
by Elder Heber J. Grant, then a member
of the Council of the Twelve Apostles,
who was convinced that these young
men lacked the experience to travel in
the Latin American countries where
there were constant revolutions; he
feared for their lives. He reported to

the General Authorities, who agreed
that the expedition should be called off.
When President Joseph F. Smith, then
a counselor in the First Presidency,
visited them, they were adamant in
their intentions to continue. Permission
for a smaller party was given, and nine
of the original twenty-three proceeded
on through Mexico, Guatemala, and
finally Colombia, where they had hoped
to discover the city of Zarahemla, men-
tioned in the Book of Mormon. They
suffered all kinds of hardships, priva-
tion, hunger, serious illness, scorpion
and snake bites, and even arrest. Co-
lombia, in the midst of a revolution,
denied them permission to continue.
Discouraged, they returned to the
United States by ship via Cuba, arriving
in Provo on February 7, 1902.

(Bottom left)

Equipped with pith helmets, these mem-
bers of the BYA expedition of 1900
were, front row, left to right: Walter
Wolfe, Benjamin Cluff, Jr., John B.
Fairbanks (official photographer and
artist); back row: Joseph Adams, Asa
Kienke, Heber Magleby, Chester Van
Buren, and Paul Henning.

(Bottom right)

The expedition stopped at the home of
E. D. Woolley on May 4, 1900, in
Kanab, Utah. In front, from left, are
Lafe Reese, Royal Woolley, and Eugene
L. Roberts, with Rachel Woolley behind
the horse.

(Top left)

Although the BYA expedition returned
in 1902 with little success, Chester G.
Van Buren, a naturalist, continued to
Colombia in South America, where he
struggled through jungles until the
autumn of 1903. He suffered priva-
tions and hardships but returned with
many rare and valuable specimens, con-
sisting of 1,200 birds, snakes, mammals,
plants, and Indian artifacts. A museum
of natural history was established
through the efforts of Professor Van
Buren, Professor Edwin H. Smart, and a
student assistant, George Talmage.
These two cases in the Education Build-
ing contained the exhibits for many
years, and North American specimens
were later added.

(Top right)

A military post called Post of Beaver,
later Fort Cameron, was established in
1872 at the mouth of Beaver Canyon in
southwestern Utah between Fillmore
and Cedar City. It consisted of twenty
stone buildings, a ten-acre drill ground,
and 240 acres of farmland. In 1883,
when the troops were moved to Fort
Douglas in Salt Lake City, Beaver Stake
President John R. Murdock and Bishop
Philo T. Farnsworth purchased the land
and buildings for $15,000 and held it
for the Church. In 1898 it was con-
verted into a branch of Brigham Young
Academy. The people of Beaver were
to pay $1,200 and Provo $1,000 an-
nually for its support. In 1908 the
Church assumed full control of the

school, and it was renamed Murdock
Academy. It was discontinued in 1922
because each county was required to
maintain tuition-free schools.

(Bottom left)

The Beaver Branch of BYU marching
band in about 1904 included, back row:
William Riggs, John Pindleton, Joseph
Snow, Hans Bastian, Amenzo Topham;
middle row: unidentified, Walter

Paxton, unidentified, George Wood-
house, George Hickman, Mitchell
Black; front row: William Connell,

unidentified.

(Bottom right) C-125

A girls' physical education class at
Beaver Branch of BYU in 1904.

Period of
Progress
1904-1921

President George H. Brimhall in the
early years of his administration.

George Henry Brimhall, who served as
president of Brigham Young University
from 1904 to 1921, was born in Salt
Lake City on December 9, 1852, and
learned to work hard on family farms.
The family moved to Ogden and Span-
ish Fork and was called on a “Muddy
Mission" to Utah's Dixie, where they
suffered hunger, scant shelter, and
privation — a memory that remained
etched in George's mind. After the
mission, the family returned to Spanish
Fork and Utah Valley, for which George
expressed so much love and admiration
in his well-known song, “I Love You,
Utah Valley" (music by William F.
Hanson).

After availing himself of all the edu-
cational opportunities in his hometown,
he entered the Timpanogos Branch of
the University of Deseret in Provo, and
when that school closed he entered the
new Brigham Young Academy. His
tuition was to be paid with part of a
beef, but when he saw the sacrifice his
parents were about to make, he ob-
jected, saying that it was not fair that
so much of the family's winter food
should go for his tuition. His mother
(who made not only his clothes but also
his shoes) explained that if he would go
to school, he could help the other chil-
dren attend later. This he had ample
opportunity to do, being the eldest of
ten children. While attending the
Academy he did janitorial work for his
support.

On receiving his teacher's diploma,
he began teaching in Spanish Fork,
where he helped to build the Young
Men's Academy. He was a principal in
Spanish Fork and later superintendent
of Utah County and Provo City Schools.

George H. Brimhall was appointed a
teacher at BYA in 1891 at a salary of
$20 a month, which he had to augment
by maintaining his own farm. He was
placed in charge of the Intermediate
Department, and when Professor Cluff
became principal of the Academy in
1892, Professor Brimhall was made
assistant professor of the Pedagogy De-
partment and principal of the Training
School and the Normal Department. He

served as acting principal in 1893 (the
year he received the Bachelor of Peda-
gogy degree), when Cluff spent a year
at Michigan University, and as acting
president from 1900 to 1902 when Cluff
was on the expedition to South America.
In 1893 he was also elected first presi-
dent of the Alumni Association and
remained a forceful backer of alumni
work all his life.

George H. Brimhall was installed as
president of Brigham Young University
on April 16, 1904, with Joseph B.
Keeler as his first counselor and Edwin
S. Hinckley as second counselor —
similar to LDS ward, stake, and Church
administration. This arrangement was
in accordance with a resolution of the
General Church Board of Education.
President Hinckley resigned in 1915
and was replaced by Amos N. Merrill.
This presidency continued until 1920.

The General Board of Education and
the University conferred honorary doc-
torates on President Brimhall. He was a
tireless worker and the Brimhall-Keller-
Hinckley-Merrill period was one of
cooperation and progress. The Training
School Building was constructed in
1902; the Maeser Building in the period
between 1909-11; the Missionary and
reparatory Building (later the Arts
Building) in 1904; the Women's Gym-
nasium in 1913; the blacksmith's shop
in 1904; and the Mechanic Arts Build-
ing in 1918. Between 1904 and 1908
the campus on University Hill was ac-
quired, the Y was placed on the moun-
tainside, and concrete walks were con-
structed throughout the grounds.

In the academic area the require-
ments for a baccalaureate degree were
substantially increased, the Bachelor of
Science degree was offered (in 1902),
and the Bachelor of Arts degree re-
placed the Bachelor of Pedagogy in
1906. In 1916 the master's degree was
authorized. Therefore, by 1920 the
catalog was able to state: "The Brigham
Young University comprises the Church
Teacher's College, offering (1) graduate
work leading to master degrees; (2) four
years' work above high school, leading
to the degree of Bachelor of Arts; (3)

two years' work leading to a normal
diploma; (4) two years' work leading to
a diploma in business education; (5) one
year's work leading to a normal cer-
tificate. It also maintains a high school
of four years' work and an elementary
school." Sabbatical leaves with pay
were approved in 1904. The practice of
conferring honorary degrees on persons
of outstanding achievement was inaugu-
rated on February 12, 1912, by award-
ing Emmaline B. Wells,- a writer of
distinction, the Honorary Doctorate of
Literature. Honorary degrees pre-
viously had been conferred on Karl G.
Maeser and Benjamin Cluff, Jr., both of
whom were within the school organi-
zation. The enrollment when Presi-
dent Brimhall took office was 1,275 in
all departments, of which only sixty-
four were college students. College
enrollment was 438 in 1921.

President Brimhall inspired a period
of cooperation, obtaining cheerful re-
sponse when he asked students and
faculty to repair the gymnasium floor,
construct the Y on the mountain,
pour concrete walks, dig sewer trenches,
or build mountain trails. He also sug-
gested the organization of BYU Women
and appointed Mrs. Elbert H. Eastmond
to organize the group. However, this
was also a time of financial difficulty,
and for a time enrollments had to be
restricted. The school was still re-
sponsible for much of its own support
but had to call on the Church for relief
from its debts.

In 1910 and 1911 a flurry of excite-
ment was caused by the appearance of
so-called "higher criticism" marked by
liberal views about religion in faculty
debates and some classroom teaching.
The campus community found itself
divided into extreme groups, with some
trying to adjust in the middle and with
President Brimhall trying to keep a
balance. The controversy also spilled
over into the press, both on and off
campus. The matter came to a climax
when General Superintendent of
Church Schools Horace H. Cummings
brought the controversy to the attention
of the General Board of Education, and

an investigation was held. The Church
took no stand on scientific theories, but
the Board cautioned against teaching
ideas contrary to the teachings of the
Presidency and the Apostles of the
Church. Three faculty members left the
school.

President Brimhall probably is re-
membered best as a great orator. Pro-
fessor Alice Louise Reynolds said his
short speeches, a regular feature of
devotionals, were "electrifying." They
were later collected into a book, Long
and Short Arrows. Bryant S. Hinckley,
in a memorial address, said President
Brimhall was an orator "of the brilliant,
meteoric type who often reaches the
great spiritual altitudes and appeals to
the high emotions — the kind that
touches the hearts of people and leads
them to action."

On April 26, 1921, President Brim-
hall was honorably released and re-
ceived the rank of President Emeritus.
Thereafter he served as director of
theology for eleven years. He died on
July 29, 1932, in his eightieth year.
Two stories were added to the Me-
chanic Arts Building, and on October
16, 1935, it was named the Brimhall
Building in his honor.

These song lyrics were written by
President George H. Brimhall, who
always expressed great love for his
valley home.

I Love You, Utah Valley

I love you Utah Valley,

You are near and dear to me.

I love your eastern Kolob
And your western Galilee.

I love your Timpanogos,

Reaching up to kiss the sky
And your rugged Provo Mountain,

With its bosom 'neath the "Y".

Chorus

O Valley of Peace,

Your charms never cease.

You're a Garden of Eden,

0 valley to me.

'Tho far I may roam
I'll dream of my home,

And awake with a yearning,
With a yearning for thee,

My Utah Valley, my home.

1 love your white robed winter,

I love your golden fall.

I love your balmy summer
And your springtime best of all.
I love your breezy canyons,

And the music of your streams.
I love you in my waking
And I love you in my dreams.

President George H. Brimhall in his
later years.

(Top left)

Joseph B. Keeler, who was first coun-
selor to President George H. Brimhall
and dean of the Business College from
1904 to 1920, was one of the original
twenty-nine students to sign up with
Karl G. Maeser in 1876. Soon after
receiving his diploma in 1877, he be-
came a member of the faculty, giving a
total of thirty-seven years of service to
the school. During the financial diffi-
culties of the 1880s Professor Keeler
was appointed supervisor of the school
boarding house, which was opened as
an additional means of finance; he
served without pay.

Under Principal Maeser he was head
of the Academic Department and taught
bookkeeping, history, and civil govern-
ment, serving also as president of the
Theology Department. Under Presi-
dent Cluff he was assigned to organize
a military training unit for both men
and women. He received the degree of
Master of Accounts at Eastman Business
College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and in
1894 the Church Board of Education
conferred on him the degree of Bachelor
of Didactics.

During his life he also served as
president of Utah Stake, president of
BYU Alumni Association, city council-
man, city and county recorder, news-
paper editor, and director of enterprises
such as Utah Lake Irrigation Company,
Provo Reservoir Company, and Orem
Interurban Railway Company.

(Top right)

Edwin S. Hinckley, who served as sec-
ond counselor to President George H.
Brimhall from 1904 to 1915, was born
on July 21, 1868, the first pioneer child
born in Cove Fort. He received his
normal diploma at BYA in 1891 and
later obtained his Bachelor of Science
in geology at the University of Michi-
gan, after which he returned to the
Academy as head of the Department of
Science. President Brimhall chose him
as second counselor in 1904. Under
President Cluff he had promoted the
Alumni Association and was its presi-
dent in 1897-98 and 1924-25.

p|pH K

. ■|i|

Hinckley left BYU to become prin-
cipal of the Industrial School in Ogden
but returned to Provo to serve as execu-
tive secretary of the Chamber of Com-
merce.

A hall in the Helaman Halls complex
has been named for the Hinckley family
(descendants of Ira Nathaniel Hinckley,
Edwin's father), and a continuing trib-
ute to Edwin's life and service is main-
tained at BYU by his sons and daughters
in the Edwin S. Hinckley Memorial
Fund, through which about fifteen out-
standing BYU seniors yearly receive
substantial grants to continue their
educations.

(Bottom)

President George H. Brimhall and his
wife Flora were photographed in 1912
on their favorite mounts in front of the
family home in Provo at Third East and
First North. President Brimhall mar-
ried Alsina Elizabeth Wilkins in 1874,
and they had six children: Lucy Jane
(Mrs. J. Will Knight), Alsina Elizabeth
(Mrs. Lafayette H. Holbrook), George
W., Mark Henry, Wells L., and Milton
A. In 1885 he married Flora Robertson;
children from this marriage were Dean
R., Fay R. (Mrs. Julian M. Cummings),
Faun R. (Mrs. Thomas E. McKay),
Burns R., Ruth Afton, Paul R., Alta R.,
Golden H., and Aero R. Courtesy of
Golden H. Brimhall.

|Mr

(Top left)

When Edwin S. Hinckley resigned in
1915, Amos N. Merrill was appointed
counselor to President Brimhall and
dean of the Church Teachers College
until 1921.

Born on March 15, 1875, in Rich-
mond, Utah, he received a bachelor's
degree in 1896 at Utah State Agricul-
tural College, a master's degree in 1908
at the University of Illinois, and a Ph.D.
in 1926 at Stanford University.

He joined the Brigham Young College
(at Logan) faculty in 1902 and taught
mechanical arts, biology, and agricul-
ture. He was named professor of agri-
culture at BYU in 1910 and continued
at BYU until his death in 1953. When
called to the BYU presidency, he was
principal of the high school.

After 1921 he became professor of
vocational education, professor of sec-
ondary education, and dean of the
College of Education. He also served on
the Provo Board of Education and as
president of the Utah Education Asso-
ciation.

(Top right)

On a visit to BYU, Elder James E.
Talmage, center, member of the Council
of the Twelve and former president of
the University of Deseret, met Presi-
dent George H. Brimhall, left, and his
first counselor in the University presi-
dency, Joseph B. Keeler.

(Bottom left)

George H. Brimhall, center, then acting
president, poses with the Commercial
faculty of BYA in 1902. Back row:
Tom Smith, left; Ed Holt, Orson Camp-
bell, Albert Cope, R. Eugene Allen;
middle row: Ernest Partridge, John C.
Swensen, Joseph B. Keeler, George H.
Brimhall, Alice Louise Reynolds, N. L.
Nelson, Edwin S. Hinckley; front row:
Earl J. Glade, John E. Hayes, John
Reese, and Mrs. Sadie Worsley.

(Bottom right)

In May 1901, while he was acting
president of BYA, George H. Brimhall
urged construction of a building for the
Church Normal Training School, with

a gymnasium on the upper floor. The
Board of Trustees promptly authorized
the building when Jesse Knight offered
to contribute $15,000 and also involve
his industrialist friends. David Evans
donated $5,000; Thomas Kearns, $1,000;
and David Keith, $1,000. Students and
friends raised the remainder of the
needed $35,000. Dedication exercises
were conducted on February 17, 1902.

(Top)

The campus in 1902 included, right,
the High School Building (formerly
Academy Building); in the rear: the

College Building; and left: the Training
School Building. Construction of the
Missionary and Preparatory Building
(later the Arts Building) was to com-
mence in 1903 between the two struc-
tures. Notice the arrangement of the
outside heating plant for the Training
School Building.

(Center)

Before construction of the Training
Building, no gymnasium was available
to the students of BYA. Gym classes
were held in the southeast room of the
basement of the High School (Educa-
tion) Building, with no dressing rooms
or showers available. The Training
Building consisted of three floors, the
lower two with classrooms and offices
and the upper story a gymnasium. The
steel girders for the roof, to provide a
full span, had to be shipped in from the
East. The gymnasium contained a
balcony for spectators or for an or-
chestra. The opening event was not an
athletic contest but a grand ball on
February 7, 1902.

(Bottom)

A 1912 men's gym class in the old
Training School Building gymnasium.

(Top)

Fans packed the old Men's Gym for
basketball games. (Notice the boys
perched in the baskets on the sides of
the court.) Intercollegiate basketball
games were moved to the Women's
Gymnasium on Fifth North and Uni-
versity Avenue in 1912 because of its
accessibility. Courtesy Lynn Wakefield.

(Center)

Algie Eggertson (Ballif) conducted a
women's physical education class in the
gymnasium over the Training School in
about 1918, although most women's
classes were held in the Women's Gym-
nasium, completed in 1913.

(Bottom)

The Arts Building was first called the
Missionary and Preparatory Building.
LDS missionaries were sent to Brigham
Young University to attend the Mis-
sionary Department before leaving for
their labors throughout the world. The
Preparatory School was established to
help boys and girls who had been de-
prived in their education. They were
prepared to complete the eighth grade,
which was required for admission to
high school in Utah. The Board of
Trustees asked a donation toward the
building of $9,000 from the Alpine,
Nebo, Utah, and Wasatch Stakes. The
building was dedicated on October 26,
1904, by President Joseph F. Smith.
When its purposes changed and it be-
came the Arts Building, it was rededi-
cated on January 16, 1908, by Elder
John Henry Smith, apostle.

(Top)

Missionary training was conducted at
Brigham Young University during the
administration of President Brimhall
and was one of the purposes for the
construction of the Missionary and
Preparatory Building (later the Arts
Building) in 1904. With this missionary
class of the winter of 1912 were the
faculty on the front row: Beatrice

Camp, left; Alice Louise Reynolds,
George H. Brimhall, William Boyle, and
F. Leslie Hickman.

(Center)

When the Missionary and Preparatory
Building was constructed in 1904, the
top floor was devoted to a Domestic
Science and Domestic Arts Department.
Emma Lucy Gates, great opera star,
contributed $909.70, the proceeds of a
concert, for the benefit of the depart-
ment, which was named in honor of
Lucy B. Young, Miss Gates' grand-
mother. This was the cooking class in
that department. Note the coal stove at
left.

( Bottom)

Students under the direction of Hans
Anderson (rear) work at forges in the
old blacksmithing shop on Fifth North
Street.

(Top)

More than 1,600 students, teachers, and
friends participated in the dedication of
Temple Hill on January 16, 1908, as
the site for the "University of Zion."
Here they form a huge living block
"Y." President Joseph F. Smith offered
the prayer of dedication.

(Center)

On January 16, 1908 (Karl G. Maeser's
birthday), this procession moved to the
top of Temple Hill (now Upper Campus)
for the dedication of the land for a new
campus. President Brimhall was in-
strumental in acquiring the land on the
eminence overlooking Utah Valley; he
visualized it as the site for "the greatest
campus in the world." Seventeen acres
of Temple Hill were purchased on
February 7, 1904, from the City of
Provo for $125 an acre, with the pro-
vision that the University must erect
buildings on the ground and not use it
for speculation. But the students and
faculty were distressed by the fact that
about two acres at the point of the hill
were owned by a Salt Lake City real
estate firm, blocking plans for a unified
campus. They were able to purchase it,
however, for $1,208, raised by contri-
butions of the students and faculty, who
sacrificed candy and entertainment
money for the purpose. Later the Uni-
versity expanded its holdings, and the
campus now exceeds 500 acres.

(Bottom)

A site about where the Joseph Smith
Memorial Building now stands was
chosen for a running track and playing
field. In 1904 men with teams of horses
and scrapers donated their time to level
this land and develop a suitable track
with banked curves. The land was sur-
veyed by E. D. Partridge. Bleachers
were constructed on the south side of
the field on the brow of the hill. The
grandstand was used until April 15,
1932, when it was destroyed by fire.
In this photo, notice Raymond Grove at
left, a favorite picnicking spot for
Provoans, named after Raymond
Knight, son of Jesse Knight.

(Top)

Men and women with rakes, shovels,
and teams of horses pulling scrapers
prepared the area for the track and
playing field.

(Center)

Happy students leaned on their shovels
and rakes to pose for a photograph as
they finished up work on the new
grandstand and playing field on Upper
Campus in 1905. While the figures in
the picture are very small, the men in
the center can be identified as Presi-
dent George H. Brimhall and Coach
Clayton Teetzel.

(Bottom)

Beginning in 1911 the annual Invita-
tional Track and Field Meet attracted
high school athletes from all over the
state to compete at the old grandstand.

(Opposite page, top)

Brigham Young High School boys in
1909 painted the initials "B.Y.U." atop
the newly constructed grandstand.

(Opposite page, center)

Within a year after the death of Karl G.
Maeser in 1901, the students and
alumni expressed a desire to build
something to the memory of the great

teacher. The original proposal was for
a memorial building on the southeast
corner of the lower campus, but this
idea was abandoned when the Univer-
sity acquired land on Temple Hill. The
site for this building had formerly
served as a graveyard for the first
settlement in Provo (1849). Families of
the deceased were asked to move the
graves to a new cemetery on the road
to Springville. According to Physical
Plant officials, many graves still remain
on this hill, however, because some
preferred to leave their dead undis-
turbed.

Architects for the project were Ware
and Treganza of Salt Lake City, and the
building was constructed from 1909 to
1911. It consisted of offices and class-
rooms and served as the administration
building from 1911 to 1961. The in-
terior is finished in oak with marble on
the main stairways. The exterior walls
are constructed of oolithic limestone,
the same stone used for the Manti
Temple.

Cost of the building was $130,000, of
which $65,000 was contributed by the
Jesse Knight family. President Joseph
F. Smith and Lafayette Holbrook, a
board member, also made generous con-
tributions, and the rest was raised by
the Alumni Association in donations
from 1,600 persons.

During World War I, when a unit of
the Student Army Training Corps was
established at BYU, soldiers were
housed in the Maeser Building. In fact,
President Ernest L. Wilkinson, who was
a student soldier at that time, bunked
in the same room where he later pre-
sided as president of the University.

(Bottom)

Cornerstone laying for the Maeser
Memorial Building was held on October
16, 1909. President Joseph F. Smith
(with white beard) presided and guided
the stone into place. Above the stone
in this photograph were Senator Reed
Smoot (holding black hat), Jesse Knight,
and Wilson Dusenberry. President
Brimhall is seen above and slightly to
the right of President Smith.

(Top left)

The Training Building, constructed in
1902, provided gymnasium space for
activities of limited size, and dances
were held in a large room in the High
School (Education) Building. By 1912,
however, both buildings were too small
for many of the school's recreational
activities, and it was often necessary to
use the private Mozart Hall at First
West and First South in Provo. Presi-
dent Brimhall obtained a Church ap-
propriation for construction of a large
gymnasium-dance hall on the west side
of University Avenue across the street
from the High School Building. Wom-
en's physical education activities were
relocated there, and it was named the
Ladies Gymnasium. In the early 1930s
the name was changed to Women's
Gymnasium.

(Top right)

The Maeser Memorial Building under
construction in 1910.

(Center)

Assembly room in the upper story of
Maeser Building. Faculty meetings
were held here until the 1950s, when
the area was renovated into offices.

(Bottom )

Groundbreaking for the Women's
Gymnasium on November 6, 1912.

Prayer was offered by Alfred Osmond,
and the address of the day was delivered
by Professor Alice Louise Reynolds.

(Top)

During a social leadership class in the
Women's Gymnasium Miss Elmina
Taylor with Scout Executive Oscar A.
Kirkham (center) and Athletic Director
E. L. Roberts with Mrs. Algie Eggertson
Ballif (near orchestra) demonstrated
correct dance steps.

(Bottom left)

These well-dressed young gentlemen
were students at Brigham Young Uni-
versity between 1903 and 1907: Ellis
Pickett (seated on floor), Wilford
McAllister, Joseph McAllister, and
Whitehead.

(Bottom right)

This cartoon was inspired by the con-
troversy that raged over a local Provo
ordinance prohibiting the sale of liquor
in 1909, ten years before the Volstead
Act implemented the Eighteenth

Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
forbidding the sale of alcoholic bever-
ages. On the near side of the street are
the red-nosed "wets" standing among
beer barrels. Across the street are the
"dry" students and faculty, parading in
front of a saloon carrying signs declar-
ing "Down with Saloons," "BYU for
Prohibition," "Faculty Strong for Pro-
hibition," and a picture of a drunk
labeled "Finished Product."

The local law resulted from a resolu-
tion drawn up by the presidency of BYU,
adopted by the Board of Trustees on
June 4, 1909, and submitted to the
Provo City council. It stated, in part,
that "the saloon is an evil in any com-
munity" and "a constant menace to
morale and well-being." It asserted
further: "The saloon and the influences
that go out from it cause most of the
trouble with which the faculty have to
cope in the government and discipline

of students. We, therefore, respectfully
ask that you take steps looking to the
abolishment of the saloon at a very
early date, that Provo, which is now a
college town, may place itself in line
with other college towns that stand for
prohibition."

The petition was approved not only
by the city but also by the county com-
mission so that prohibition was estab-
lished throughout Utah County.

But the battle was not yet over. Wets
of both parties bolted and put up an
independent wet ticket. They suc-
ceeded in electing the general officers of
the city, while the dries elected the city
council; they tended constantly to
cancel each other out, but enforcement
succeeded fairly well until the Eigh-
teenth Amendment took over.

(Top left )

This is the title page, printed in yellow
and black, of the 1911 Banyan, the first
BYU yearbook of that name. It was
preceded by the 1909 Fourth Year High
School Album, which was of horizontal
format and bound in leather. In 1912
the yearbook name changed to Mizpah,
a clothbound volume, and in 1913 to
BYUtah. In 1914 the name reverted
back to Banyan, which has continued to
the present. The name was taken from
a statement by Karl G. Maeser: "When,
on the 24th of April fourteen years ago,
the Academy opened, with 29 students,
and myself the only teacher, when the
range of studies did not extend beyond
the fifth grade, no one imagined that in
that insignificant beginning the germ of
a system had been planted which, in its
gradual development, was to penetrate
with its ramifications throughout all the
borders of Zion, stretching its branches
like a great banyan tree, as it were, far
and wide."

(Top right)

A drafting class on Lower Campus in
about 1904.

(Center left)

Physics laboratory and lecture room on
Lower Campus in about 1904.

(Center right)

Chemistry class in the High School
Building in about 1904.

(Bottom)

Children in the Training School in
about 1904 present a Japanese program.

(Top left)

Recipients of the bachelor's degree at
commencement exercises on May 26,
1904, were A. Theodore Johnson, left;
Byron O. Colton, George C. Laney,
Clarence S. Jarvis, and John E. Booth.
They carried their diplomas and gifts of

flowers and displayed their banner with
the motto: "Faith and Self-Effort."

(Top right)

Graduates from the College Department
in 1907. Back row, left: Hans C. Peter-
son, George R. Hill, and Harvey

Fletcher (later the famous scientist for
whom a building was named on cam-
pus); front row, left: Robert H. Sains-
bury, Georgia Hoagland, and Franklin
S. Harris (later president of the Uni-
versity). Peterson and Hoagland re-
ceived the first Bachelor of Arts degrees.
The others received Bachelor of Science
degrees.

(Center)

Dressed up as though for a party, these
Brigham Young University students of
1906 were on a natural science class
field trip to the natural hot springs they
called "hot pots" in Midway, Utah.
Edith Redd was about to descend a
ladder into an old crater of "pot rock"
(calcareous tufa). Others in the pic-
ture are (2) Joseph Sudweeks, (3) Nellie
Clyde, (6) Charles De Graff, (7) Newton
Jackson, (8) Lorena Chipman (Fletcher)
(American Mother of the Year in 1965),
and (9) George R. Hill.

(Bottom)

The first graduation after Brigham
Young Academy became Brigham
Young University was held May 26,
1904, at the Provo Tabernacle, after
which the entire group was photo-
graphed on the grounds, with President
Brimhall in the foreground. The girls in
pretty white dresses carried bouquets,
and the men were dressed in Sunday
best. Five of them wore caps and gowns.
The Bachelor of Science degree was
offered in 1902, and the Bachelor of
Arts degree replaced the Bachelor of
Pedagogy in 1906. The master's degree
was authorized in 1916. From the
George Edward Anderson Collection,
courtesy Nelson Wadsworth.

(Top)

The Rialto Club, formed in 1903-04,
was a rather exclusive men's club on
campus, organized for discussing cur-
rent economic and political issues. Con-
vened in the College Club Room in 1905
or 1906 for this photograph were Don-
ald Forsyth (at desk), president; Elmer
Jacob (2), vice-president; Roy Mellor
(3), Dell Boyer (4), Charles Kimball (5),
Art Stallings (6), William W. Snow (7),
John Reese (8), Fred Lamb (9), Arthur
V. Watkins (10), Lester Mangum (11),
John McGuire (12), unidentified (13),
Marion Wakefield (14), George P.
Parker (15), George R. Hill (16), uni-
dentified (17), and Albert Mabey (18).

(Center)

Albert Miller, a German musician,
joined the BYA faculty in 1901 and or-
ganized the first band and orchestra.
He died in 1906 and was succeeded by
Robert Sauer, also from Germany,
whom Miller had assisted when he
arrived in Utah. In 1965 a room in the
new Harris Fine Arts Center was named
Albert Miller Orchestra Room in his
honor. He is seen with the school or-
chestra in this 1904 photograph.

(Bottom)

Professor Anthony C. Lund with some
of his outstanding students of music in
about 1905; back row, left to right:
Mabel Borg (Jenkins), Ray Holdaway,
Clarence Hawkins, Mary Lewis; front
row: Mattie Salmon, Professor Lund,

and Florence Jepperson (Madsen). He
taught at BYA and BYU from 1893 to
1900 and from 1902 to 1915.

i. M/f fl] fRttoh ■: -

i w

r i

/ /

(Top left)

Mary Hale Woolsey, a student at BYU
from 1914 to 1917, wrote the words to
"Springtime in the Rockies."

(Top right)

The legend on the back of this old
photograph identified these students as
the staff of the White and Blue news-
paper in 1907-08. Members were,
front row, left to right: Joseph K.

Nicholes, Heber C. Snell (editor),
Thethe Hardy, Roy Gardner; back row:
W. King Driggs, Olive Maiben Nicholes,
Albert J. Ashman, J. F. Russon, Earl J.
Glade, Ethel Smith, and Clarence Jacob.
A building on campus was named in
honor of Joseph K. Nicholes. A lecture
room in the Jesse Knight Building was
named in honor of Earl J. Glade, later
head of the BYU Business Department,
bookstore manager, founder of Radio
Station KSL, and mayor of Salt Lake
City for twelve years. W. King Driggs
was patriarch of the "King Family,"
of television and motion picture fame.

(Center)

Resplendent in elaborate new uniforms,
the BYU Band poses on the steps of the
High School Building for its official
1909 photo. Conductor was Robert
Sauer, bandmaster from Germany. He
became director of the BYU band in
1906 and was recognized as one of the
foremost band directors in the area,
serving until 1943. He composed the
music to "Springtime in the Rockies."
His memory is perpetuated by the
Robert Sauer Band Room in the Harris
Fine Arts Center.

(Bottom)

A BYU orchestra in 1912.

(Top left)

The Masterbuilders, photographed here
on a 1906 field trip, was a club com-
posed of art students. Their teacher,
standing, was Professor Elbert H. East-
mond.

(Top right )

These students, who received a special
certificate in fine arts in about 1906, are
Anna Parkinson (Nibley) (1), Fannie
McLean (2), Bryan Alder (3), Mae
Mortensen (4), Julia Brown (Knudsen)
(5), Christensen (6), unidentified (7),
Emily Anderson (8), Bessie Eastmond
(Gourley) (9), unidentified (10), and
Virginia Chipman (Murdock) (11).

(Center)

Members of the College Club, made up
of students in the College Department,
got down to business in this club meet-
ing of 1906 or 1907.

(Bottom)

The Myster Club during President
Brimhall's administration was made up
of young ladies training to be kinder-
garten teachers. Members in this 1906
photograph are, front row: Helena

Roberts, Dulcie Webb Warnick, Edith
Young Booth, Bertie Walsh, Anna Sharp
Paxman, Estella Spilsbury Harris, Edith
Hindley Taylor, Violet Long Broadbent;
second row: Nellie Clyde DeGraff,

Adar Taylor Cropper, Mary Bartholo-
mew Stewart, Beatrice Ashworth Cash,
Bernice Chipman Lloyd, Bessie Spencer
Bateman, and Lola B. White. Their
teacher was Mrs. Ida S. Dusenberry.

IIIMK

(Top left )

A campus cleanup and work day in
1904. This was the forerunner of Y
Day after the block Y was placed on
the mountain in 1906.

(Top right)

This was the heavy duty equipment of
the "Sagerooters.” Since many of the
students were farmboys, wagons and
teams were plentiful for the occasion.

(Center)

Professor Ernest Partridge, front row
center (5), was teacher of the BYU
Mandelin and Guitar Club in 1907.

(Bottom)

The "Sagerooters” spent a workday on
Orem Bench in 1907 clearing sagebrush
from 500 acres of land located at about
what is now the center of Orem City.
The land was donated to the University
by Jesse Knight and was leased or sold
in parcels to finance various campus
projects. Typical of students of the
time, they made a good time of it and
were even serenaded at their work by
the BYU Band.

(Top left)

The Brigham Young University Student
Council in 1909 included, front row,
left to right: John C. Swensen (faculty),
Beatrice Mellor, J. Robert Robinson,
Vivia Finlayson, John C. Peterson, Alice
Louise Reynolds (faculty); second row:
Heber C. Snell, Lawrence Epperson,
Carl Nelson, C. Hardy Carroll, David
R. Mitchell, Hugh E. Love, Paul Miner,
Elmer Jacob, and Jesse F. Bean.

(Top right)

A thrilling drama produced in 1909 was
"The Amazon," coached by Freeda
Barnum Cluff. The cast included,
seated on floor, left to right: Luella

Adams (Dalton), Vivien Bonnett (Far-
rer), Sam Rigby; seated: Harold Finch,
Lloyd E. Woods, Mamie Calder (Robi-
son), Wyman Berg; standing: Myrtle

Thorne (Weeks), Jesse Ellertsen, Karl
Keeler, and Edna Geddes.

(Center left)

Members of the high school com-
mercial class of 1909 wanted to make
sure everyone identified them and wore
identical outfits with a big "C" on the

jersey. Front row: Bartle Parker,

Milton Fletcher, Florence Bee, Eva Page
(Wanless), Edna Holdaway, Lewis
Jones, D. W. Seely; middle row: Leo
Ellertson, Ray Mahoney, Deloss Pax-
man; Top row: Arthur Gardner, J.

Sylvan Rasband, Leon Neuren, Wayne
Decker, Ray Russell, Merlin Southwick,
Earl Spafford, Cyril Duffin, Milton
Chipman, and Alvan Anderson.

(Center right)

President George H. Brimhall and Dr.
Christen Jensen (in academic costumes)
with some members of the class of
1914: Henry Aldous Dixon, left; M.

Wilford Poulson, Fernada Eyring, David
J. Wilson, Charles E. McClellan, Lottie
Harris, Murray Oswald Hayes, S. D.
Moore, Jr., Julia B. Jensen, and Thomas
C. Romney.

(Opposite page, bottom)

Commercial graduates of 1908 pre-
sented a sketch on the College Hall
stage under the name of their fictitious
company, "Catchem and Cheatem."
Behind them are the accoutrements of a

stockbroker's office, including office
machines and the stock list. As was the
custom with graduating groups in that
period, they also displayed a banner
with their motto: "Character and Repu-
tation Our Capital."

(Top)

On the first Y Day (1906) this group of
young ladies riding burros was assisted
up the mountain by Kanute Peterson to
view the activities. The group included
Chloe Smoot, left; Genieve Elliott, Erma
Loose, "Pete" Peterson, Nettie Smith,
Annette Parkinson, and Pearl Boren.

(Bottom)

According to legend, the junior class
had the audacity to sneak up the side of
the steep mountain east of campus and
paint "1907" in bold view of everyone.
The outraged seniors virtually declared
war on the upstarts, and to keep the
peace, student administrators suggested
painting the University symbol on the
mountainside in place of numerals.

Professor Ernest D. Partridge de-
signed the emblem and supervised its
survey in 1906. It measured 322 X 120
feet, and 280 acres of land were pur-
chased for the project. Elmer Jacob,
Clarence Jacob, and Harvey Fletcher,
students of Professor Partridge, climbed
the mountain and staked out the out-
line of the letter. According to Dr.
Fletcher (later one of the nation's most
honored scientists) the survey was
made by sighting from the top of the
High School Building. Originally, said
Dr. Fletcher, all three letters — B-Y-U
— were planned, but the upkeep of even
one has proved to be an overwhelming
task. From the air the letter appears
elongated, but it was intentionally de-
signed that way so that it would look
normal from the valley floor. At first
it was a plain letter, but in 1911 it was
made into a block Y by the addition
of serifs (foot and caps).

Every year on Y Day it was built up
with stones and cement and white-
washed by thousands of students haul-
ing thousands of gallons of lime mix-
ture up the mountain by bucket brigade.
In this photo, students, like a swarm of
ants, work over the letter. In 1972 and
1973 the letter was whitewashed with
the aid of a helicopter because of ero-
sion problems; thereafter the work has
been done at autumn registration time
by incoming freshmen.

(Top left)

Another scene on the first Y Day.
Notice that the area outlined for the
Y had not yet been entirely covered
with lime. Courtesy Dr. Albert D.
Swensen.

( Top right)

These students (about 1908) shield their
faces from the hot lime being prepared
to whitewash the Y.

(Center left)

For sixty-four years scenes like this
were typical of annual Y Day as stu-
dents formed bucket brigades to pass
full buckets of whitewash up the moun-
tain and send empty buckets down to be
refilled for the refurbishing of the school
symbol.

(Center right)

Whitewash being sloshed on the block

Y after the bucket brigade had moved it
up the mountainside.

(Bottom left)

Throughout the decades, beginning in
1924, a thrilling tradition has been the
lighting of the Y on special occasions,
such as commencement, homecoming,

Y Day, and the announcement of the
Belle of the Y. The spectacular sight is
provided by the Intercollegiate Knights,
who place petroleum torches around the
huge letter.

(Bottom right)

In later years students who shirked their
duty on Y Day were tossed into the frog
pond. This photo was taken in 1945.

< >51

1 1

c— *

big letter. The mass painting was re-
sumed in 1974 by freshmen at autumn
registration.

(Center)

An occasion of excitement and impor-
tance in Provo was the visit on Septem-
ber 24, 1909, of U.S. President William
Howard Taft. A large crowd gathered
at the muddy railroad yards at the old
Provo depot to witness the arrival of the
President's special train and to see him
on the observation platform (far left).
From here he was driven in an early
vintage automobile through the city and
to Temple Hill to see the new BYU
campus, then back to the Provo Taber-
nacle.

(Top left)

Erosion from too much traffic on the
mountainside over the years brought
warnings from the U.S. Forest Service
as the Y threatened to crumble. On
April 29, 1961, students aided in repair
of the site by cementing rocks into
place along the edge of the letter. Ter-
racing and catch basins were prepared.

(Top right)

In 1972 and 1973, erosion on the moun-
tain and an earlier end of school dic-
tated the abandonment of the tradi-
tional mass whitewashing of the Y, and
the work was performed by helicopter.
The craft lifted the whitewash up the
mountain and hovered as a small crew
on the ground released the paint on the

(Bottom)

President Taft, standing (in trench coat),
expressed his approval of the develop-
ments to that time and of the prospects
for the future. With him was a military
escort and U.S. Senator Reed Smoot of
Utah, in dark suit and derby hat. Be-
yond is Raymond Grove and the fence
around the old playing field, and at
right is the foundation of the Maeser
Building, upon which the cornerstone
was laid only three weeks later on
October 16, 1909. For this occasion
BYU students placed the letters
T-A-F-T on the mountainside below
the block Y. Notice the beautiful old
automobile with gas lights and strapped
hood and with gearshift and brake on
the outside.

(Top left)

After a drive around Provo, President
Taft addressed a capacity audience in
the Provo Tabernacle. In this photo-
graph Senator Reed Smoot is at the
pulpit, and President Taft stands at his
left.

(Top right)

David Starr Jordan, left, president of
Stanford University, was greeted at the
Provo railroad station by BYU President
George H. Brimhall when he came in
April, 1912, to give a lecture in the
Lyceum series.

(Bottom left)

Helen Keller, center, visited BYU in
1914 on a lecture tour. Her interpreter,
left, holds her hand to converse with
her through sign language. Courtesy
Dr. Albert D. Swensen.

(Bottom center)

John Dewey, right, famous philosopher,
psychologist, and educational reformer,
was photographed with John C. Swen-
sen and President George H. Brimhall
during his visit to Brigham Young Uni-
versity as a lecturer in summer school
in 1901. Courtesy Dr. Albert D.
Swensen.

(Bottom right)

Eugene L. Roberts (1880-1953) was
born in Provo and enrolled at the Brig-
ham Young Academy in 1898, later
serving as editor of the White and Blue
newspaper and captain of the track
team that won the first Utah Inter-
collegiate Track and Field Meet. When
BYA abandoned football in 1900,
Roberts became a member of the "out-
law" Provo team. He also was a mem-
ber of the Cluff expedition to South
America, 1900-02.

"Gene" joined the BYU faculty in
1910 as coach and physical director and
continued until 1927, but he turned his
coaching duties over to Alvin Twitchell
in 1921. He left BYU to become physi-
cal education director at the University
of Southern California.

Roberts loved the Wasatch Moun-
tains and originated the Timpanogos
hike to give more people a chance to
share the area's beauty. In the same
spirit he started the "moonlight Maple
Flat hike," sunrise and sunset hikes, the
annual Winter Carnival, and the sum-
mer scenic tour to southern Utah. This
dynamic innovator also started the In-
vitational Track and Field Meet and
Relay Carnival, the Thanksgiving cross-
country run, social hours, the first Boy
Scouting classes, and the first classes in
social recreation leadership. He was
instrumental in bringing football back

to BYU in 1919.

In the first five years of his coaching
career, his basketball teams won the
state collegiate title four times and came
within a couple of points of winning the
AAU national basketball championship
in Chicago in 1917. Roberts coached
all sports and turned out some outstand-
ing athletes, including Olympic cham-
pions. His main concern, however, was
to bring physical activity and recreation
to large numbers of students, faculty,
and townspeople, rather than to only a
few athletes.

(Top left)

One of the many "firsts" inaugurated
by Coach Roberts, the Timpanogos hike
(beginning in 1912), brought him the
nickname of E. L. "Timpanogos" Rob-
erts. The idea for the hike was inspired
by his church mission to Switzerland

and the Alps. The accompanying
photograph is believed to be the first
group of hikers as they scrambled up
the mountain and paused at the 12,000-
foot summit to enjoy the breathtaking
view.

Although there were earlier hikes,
the first organized group, a handful of
students and townspeople, had to haul
their bedding and camping provisions
up the north fork of Provo Canyon from
Wildwood to Aspen Grove (a name
originated by Roberts) by foot over an
old sawmill drag road. They camped at
Aspen Grove the first night, made the
hike to the summit the second day,
then camped at Aspen Grove that night.
In 1913 the fame of the hike had spread,
and sixty-five hikers participated in the
event, which included a prehike pro-
gram the night before — a tradition
which continued until the hike was

discontinued in 1970.

Dr. C. J. Hart was Timp hike chair-
man from 1928 to 1961, and Dr. Israel
C. Heaton from 1961 to 1970.

(Top right)

This photograph was taken by John C.
Swensen in 1907 before the start of the
organized annual Timpanogos hike.
These early hikers made their way
around a great crevasse in the glacier.
Courtesy Dr. Albert D. Swensen.

(Bottom)

Anthony C. Lund, music conductor at
BYU in the early 1900s and later Salt
Lake Tabernacle Choir conductor, rests
near the peak of Mount Timpanogos.
Courtesy Dr. Albert D. Swensen.

(Top)

Activities of the Timpanogos hike al-
ways started on a Friday night in late
July or early August with a bonfire
ceremony and program at Aspen Grove
in the north fork of Provo Canyon at
the foot of the majestic peak. This was
the site of the BYU Alpine Summer
School during the 1920s and 1930s,
later taken over as the Alumni Associa-
tion Aspen Grove Family Camp. The

Friday night ceremonies were held in a
natural amphitheater, where a stage had
been improvised. "Timp sticks” (hiking
sticks) were awarded to the oldest par-
ticipant, those who had traveled the
farthest, the one who had made the
most hikes, and to visiting dignitaries.
In later years a photo contest was held
and the winning photographs displayed.

(Bottom left)

A frequent feature of the bonfire pro-
gram before the Timpanogos hike was
the production of "The Legend of Tim-
panogos” by Eugene L. Roberts, used as
the basis for an opera by Professor Wil-
liam F. Hanson that premiered in 1937.
According to the legend, beautiful In-
dian Princess Utahna was required by
her tribe to leap from the peak as a
sacrifice to the gods in a time of
drought. But she was intercepted by

her lover, Red Eagle, who convinced her
he was the god of Timpanogos, and they
lived happily for a time in Timpanogos
Cave. When they were found out, Red
Eagle was wounded; so Utahna learned
that he was not a god but a mortal man.
She was forced to make the leap, and
the bleeding brave carried her broken
body to the cave (Timpanogos Cave
National Monument), where a large
heart-shaped stalactite, glowing red,
grows at the spot where the final tragic
scene took place.

(Bottom right)

Professor William F. Hanson, composer
of the Timpanogos-based opera. The
Bleeding Heart. He also composed
music for "The College Song" (words
by Annie Pike Greenwood) and a ver-
sion of "The Old Y Bell" (words by Dr.
Carlton Culmsee).

(Top left )

In 1929 the temporary stage at Aspen
Grove was replaced by a permanent
rustic stone structure.

(Top right)

A brave climber on the annual Tim-
panogos Hike in 1925 starts his swift
slide down the precipitous glacier.
Courtesy Homer Wakefield.

(Bottom left)

The hikers made their way over and
around snowbanks and ledges on the
switchback trail to the peak of Mount
Timpanogos. The event drew partici-
pants, often numbering more than 5,000,
from many states and nations. Soon
BYU was only one of the sponsors, as
the Chamber of Commerce offered
Timp sticks to special visitors and sum-
mit badges to everyone who reached

the top. Also involved in contributing
to the hike's promotion, success, and
safety were the Forest Service, the Boy
Scouts, the Alpine Club, the Sheriff's
Jeep Patrol, and other law enforcement
agencies and civic groups. At the sug-
gestion of the U.S. Forest Service, the
hike was discontinued after the 1970
climb because of the damage done to the
mountain and its ecology by the assault
of thousands of hikers in a single day.

(Bottom right)

Hikers in the 1950s crowd around a
bonfire at Emerald Lake after a slide
down the glacier during the Timpanogos
hike. One girl hides her face from the
smoke, while others dry out their soaked
clothing. There were plenty of blisters,
lots of sunburns, a few nosebleeds from
the altitude, and occasionally a heart
attack.

(Top left )

This basketball team of the class of 1907
had eliminated the heavy quilted foot-
ball pants worn by earlier basketball
players. They gained speed and mo-
bility by wearing boxer shorts, which,
no doubt, contributed to their winning
the trophy. Members were Charles
West, E. J. Kirkham, Enoch Brown, R. J.
Evans, Hamilton Gardner, and Jensen.

(Top right)

Eugene L. Roberts organized many other
hikes in addition to the Timpanogos
hike, including the "autumn leaf hike,"
winter hikes, and summer hikes, such
as this one along the Provo River in
1912. The ladies wore bloomers, big
straw hats, and high button shoes, while
some of the gentlemen dressed up in
suits and ties and sailor straw hats.

(Center)

Since football was banned in all Church
schools from 1900 to 1919, emphasis
was placed on basketball, track, and
baseball. This was BYU's champion
basketball team in 1905. Notice that at
this time basketball players still wore
quilted football pants and sneakers.
Some early editor wrote the surname
identifications of each man directly on
the photograph. They are, back row:
Evans, Greenwood, Rose, Thurman,
Watkins (later U.S. Senator), and Coach
Teetzel; front row: Chamberlain, Alder,
and Anderson.

( Bottom )

Still wearing the ribbons they had won
earlier, these 1908 BYU track team
members and student friends were
photographed as they prepared to leave
for home after a contest in Logan.
Coach T. Clayton Teetzel, wearing a
straw hat, is at right on the front row.

(Top left)

Coach Clayton Teetzel (top right) and
business manager J. T. Reese (top left)
with the 1908 track team. Top center:
Archie Brockbank; center row: L. T.

Epperson, Jesse Crosby, Hugh Holda-
way, H. J. Peterson, Irvin Jacobs, Elmer
King, Clarence Jones, Homer Christen-
sen; front row: M. C. Riddle, Allred,
Johnson, Hansen, Hirum Henline, Sam
Baird, William Love.

( Top right)

High School and College were separate
departments in the Brimhall adminis-
tration, and each conducted its own
athletic program. This was the Brigham
Young High School baseball team of
1909. Members were, top row: George
Brooks, John Hunter, Aldous Dixon,
Wyman Berg; middle row: Bert Rich-
ards, George Foster, Hugh Baxter;
bottom row: Lloyd E. Woods, Lynn

Baxter, and Orrin Wilson.

( Center )

Members of the 1908 baseball team
were, first row: Amos Epperson and
Tom Shelley; second row: Albert

Choules, Coach Clayton Teetzel, and
Ferg Johnson; third row: Milton Miller,
Othello Bowman, Wallace Whitecotton,
Hugh Baxter, and Lawrence T. Epper-
son.

(Bottom)

Coach Eugene L. Roberts (second from
left, top) posed with his 1915 baseball
team at the old grandstand, about where
the Joseph Smith Memorial Building is
now located.

(Top left)

During the second decade of the twen-
tieth century, BYU produced under the
coaching of Eugene L. Roberts (center)
two high jumpers of world fame —
Alma Richards, left, gold medal winner
in the 1912 Olympics, and Clinton
Larson, right, world record holder.
These super athletes won in many other
events also. Photo courtesy Dr. Clinton
F. Larson.

Richards, born in 1890 in Parowan,
Utah, cleared the bar at 6 ft. 4 in. at the
1912 Olympics in Stockholm and re-
ceived the gold medal from King
Gustavus V. The versatile athlete then
won the shot put at the French Games
at Rheims, the high jump and shot put
in the French Sports Clubs Games at
Paris, the Penn Relays high jump (1913),
the high jump and broad jump at the
International Collegiate Games in Chi-
cago (1913), the decathlon at the Na-
tional AAU Championships at Chicago
(1913), and scores of other honors.

He was commissioned a lieutenant in
World War I, and in the American Ex-
peditionary Forces Championships in
Paris in 1919 he won the high jump
and the standing broad jump; he won
second in the triple jump and third in
the broad jump.

He studied at Cornell and at the Uni-
versity of Southern California and was
admitted to the bar, but he taught high
school for thirty-one years. He was
elected to the Helms Hall of Fame and
was named Utah athlete of the century,
1850-1950. He died in 1963 at Long
Beach.

Larson, born in 1892 in St. George,
Utah, won the Utah Collegiate State
Meet and the Far West Meet in San
Diego in 1916; and in 1917 he jumped
6 ft. 6 in. at BYU, unofficially. He
broke the world collegiate record at the
Penn Relays in Philadelphia at 6 ft.
5 3/8 in. The victory called for a pa-
rade in Provo, a celebration, and a
dinner sponsored by the Commercial
Club at the Roberts Hotel.

In 1918 Larson won the high jump in
the U.S. Championships in Madison
Square Garden, New York. He won
the high jump, the running broad jump,
the low hurdles, the high hurdles, and
the pole vault and placed second in the
100-yard dash in Texas. That year he
entered the U.S. Army Air Corps and
was commissioned first lieutenant and
made the athletic instructor of Squadron
39. In 1919 he took first place in the
high jump (6 ft. 4 in.) in the Inter-Allied
Games in Pershing Stadium, Paris, the
same year Richards was winning medals
in the U.S. Expeditionary Force Cham-
pionships. Also at BYU that year he
won first place in eight events at a
collegiate meet.

In 1920 Larson jumped 6 ft. 8 in.,
setting a new world record, which he
broke in 1924 with a leap of 6 ft. 9V2 in.
(The world record in 1974 was 7 ft.
6V4 in.)

Larson taught high school for many
years and was a prominent AAU and
Olympic official. He died in Salt Lake
City in 1952 and was named to the Utah
Hall of Fame on November 20, 1974.

(Top center)

Alma Richards in U.S. Olympic team
track suit at Stockholm stadium.

(Top right)

Alma Richards sails over the bar at the
old BYU grandstand. Notice his style:
upright, with his legs tucked under him,
and wearing his cap.

(Bottom)

Alma Richards as an Army lieutenant.

(Top)

Richards receives medals from General
John J. Pershing in Paris for his vic-
tories in the American Expeditionary
Forces Championships.

(Center left)

Richards rode in the first car of a tri-
umphal parade after his return from his
victories in the Stockholm Olympics
and French games in 1912. That night
a dinner in his honor was held in the
Roberts Hotel, with LDS Church, state,
and Brigham Young University digni-
taries attending.

(Center right)

Clinton Larson as a first lieutenant in
the Army Air Corps in World War I,
instructor in athletics of the 39th
Squadron.

(Bottom)

This photo of Clinton Larson clearing
the bar in the Inter-Allied Games in
Paris in 1919 shows his style. He ap-
proached the standard at high speed
from an angle, kicked off with his left
leg, scissors style, then leaned his body
back parallel to the bar, and landed on
his right hand and foot.

(Top left )

The men of this gymnastics class of
about 1910, taught by Eugene L.
Roberts (back row, center), wore knee
breeches of toreador style (some made
of velvet), oxfords, and long stockings
held in place by garters.

(Top right)

If they didn't want to risk breaking
their bones, track and field athletes at
the old grandstand field had to dig
up and soften the earth where they
landed behind high-jumping and pole-
vaulting standards. Today jumpers fall
into billows of soft foam rubber. Notice
the old grandstand with the ticket office
at the end. Courtesy of Homer Wakefield.

(Center)

This BYU basketball team was unde-
feated during the entire season and won
the state championship in 1912. Mem-
bers were, front row, left to right:
Henry Weight, Ernest Halverson, Vern
Greenwood, Les Greenwood, Bowman;
back row: director Eugene L. Roberts,
Done, Eggertsen, and manager Fletcher.

(Bottom)

The BYU track and field team won the
championship in 1913. Team members
were, back row, left to right: Jones,

Winn, Duke, Pack, Weight, Moore,
Jackman; middle row: Parkinson,

Barkdull, Freckleton, Brimhall, Adams;
front row: Daniels, Hales, Jenkins,

Baird, Eyre, Jenkins. Wayne B. Hales
(front row) was cross-country champion
that year.

(Top)

Then as now, basketball competition
generated tremendous interest among
students, faculty, and townspeople —
although in 1917 they may have been
slightly more demonstrative about it,
as evidenced by this special basketball
train that carried the fans to Salt Lake
City for a game with the University of
Utah. The railroad cars and even the
engine were decorated with the block
Y and blue and white banners.

(Center)

The legend on the back of this old
photograph described this aggregation
as "The Whirlwind Team of 1916-17,
second only to the world champions."
Members were, back row, left to right:
Roberts, Cooper, Eggertsen, Hales,
Wayne Hales, Hanchett; front row:
Raile, Eggertsen, McDonald, Simmons,
Parker. They won second place in the
national AAU tournament in Chicago.

(Bottom)

These were the contestants in the an-
nual Thanksgiving cross-country race
in 1919. The winner was "Bunk"
Brown, the man wearing the block Y.

(Top left)

An advertisement of The Toggery, "The
Young Men's Shop," in the 1911 Ban-
yan graphically portrays attire of the
well-dressed men and women of the
day.

(Top right)

The excitement of the new aviation
craze was reflected in this method of
presenting the BYU College Club in the
1910-11 yearbook. Faces of all of the
club members were cut out of photo-
graphs and superimposed on this crude
drawing of a primitive flying machine,
seven years after the Wright Brothers
made a similar one fly at Kitty Hawk.
The picture was captioned: "College

Club Flying High."

(Bottom)

For fifty years a beautiful white gateway
stood at the southeast entrance of the
lower campus, a gift of the high school
graduating class of 1912. Architect was
J. E. Allen. The gateway was built of
oolithic limestone from a quarry in
Sanpete County, the same material used
in construction of the Maeser Building
and the Manti Temple. The stone was
a gift of Peter C. Peterson, Jr., father of
C. R. Peterson, BYU purchasing agent.
It suffered from vandalism and deterio-
ration, and in 1962 it had to be removed.

$inccrtly Ctotkc*

OR the snappy, faddy, up-to-
nou) tAfew Clothing and Fur-
nishings always call here.

The Toggery

“The Young Men’s Shop”

(Top)

A BYU group on a beach outing at Utah
Lake, the picture believed to have been
taken by John C. Swensen in about 1912.
Courtesy Dr. Albert D. Swensen.

(Center)

This was the College faculty of 1913,
posing on the portico of the Maeser
Memorial Building. In addition to this
College faculty there were a High
School faculty and a Normal School,
faculty. While there were some dupli-
cations, the three groups were presented
separately in the 1913 yearbook,
"BYUTAH," because at this time the
combined faculties would have been too
large for a single photograph. Members
of the College faculty were, back row,
left to right: E. L. Roberts, Charles R.
Johnson, Christen Jensen, Andrew T.
Rasmussen, John E. Hayes, Charles W.
Whitaker; second row: Harvey Fletcher,
William F. Ward, May Ward Hunt,
William H. Chamberlain, Anna Evert
Terry, Charles E. Maw, Albert E. Huish;
seated: Viola Schumaker, James L.

Brown, E. H. Eastmond, Claire W. Reid,
Edwin S. Hinckley (counselor in the
presidency), John C. Swensen, George
H. Brimhall (president), Amos N.
Merrill (later a counselor), Joseph B.
Keeler (counselor in the presidency),
Vilate Elliot, Alice Louise Reynolds, Ida
Smoot Dusenberry, and A. B. Christen-
sen.

( Bottom )

At the suggestion of the White and Blue,
a fountain was constructed on Lower
Campus by the class of 1913. This
photograph was taken at its dedication
in 1913. Sometimes it was called the
Aztec Fountain and sometimes the
Beehive Fountain because both designs
were on it. It was designed by Andrew
Brimhall, a class member. The fountain
had its problems and was not turned on
often. As student activities moved to
the upper campus, the fountain was
used even less.

(Top)

One of the few times the fountain was
turned on.

(Center)

This very businesslike group was a
commercial class of 1912. Those seated
were, left to right: Lottie Gibson,

Lawrence Epperson, Arthur F. Crowther,
unidentified, Melvin G. Paulson, Clar-
ence Wood, Delilah Booth; standing:
the only person identified was Walter
Anderson, second from left.

(Bottom)

A parade on University Avenue in Provo
on Pioneer Day, July 24, 1912. The
many white specks in the photograph
are from slight deterioration of the old,
original John C. Swensen negative.
Courtesy Dr. Albert D. Swensen.

(Top)

America's love affair with the auto-
mobile extended to Brigham Young
University campus, as evidenced by the
Fifth North Street parking jam of these
pre-1920 beauties.

(Center)

A corner of the library in the High
School (Education) Building.

(Bottom)

The College students pulled against the
High School students in a tug-of-war —
with the canal as the dividing line — as
a feature of the Founder's Day celebra-
tion in 1913. Obviously, these High
School students were losing but kept
fighting although their footing was wet.
Notice that, although it was a field day
activity, almost everyone wore a hat
and a suit.

( Top left)

Although plays, debates, and lectures
were held in College Hall, the old Opera
House in downtown Provo (constructed
in 1888 on First West between Center
Street and First North) was the scene
of many large-scale BYU productions,
such as operas and major dramas, be-
fore 1920. Later the seats were re-
moved and the building was used for
dances and boxing and wrestling
matches. According to Professor J.
Homer Wakefield, who took this photo-
graph, it was the site of Jack Dempsey's
boxing debut. In the 1920s it was con-
verted to a National Guard armory, and
it was razed in the 1950s. Some BYU
dramas were also presented during the
1920s in the Columbia Theater on
Center Street (now the Paramount).
Courtesy Homer Wakefield.

(Top right)

This was the scene on Center Street as
the BYU band passed Taylor's Depart-
ment Store during the 1914 Founder's
Day parade.

(Center)

This was the "Fools' Frolic" of 1920 in
the Women's Gymnasium, reported as
"a smiling success, biggest High School
event of the year." Programs dangle
from the wrists of several dancers. In
those days partners for all dances were
scheduled on the small cards, with the
first and last dances usually reserved for
one's date, a custom that went out of
style in the 1960s.

(Bottom)

The floats in the 1914 Founder's Day
parade were built on wagons pulled by
the finest horses. This one, festooned
with many flags, was titled "History
and Government."

(Top)

Automobiles were also in the 1914
Founder's Day parade, and flowers
covered everything and everybody.

(Center)

This 1916 art class was taught by Pro-
fessor Elbert H. Eastmond, right.

(Bottom)

This was a typical scene in the Training
School, operated not only for the edu-
cation of children but also for the train-
ing of teachers by the University as the
official Church Teachers College.

(Top)

At a reunion of the Class of 1891 on
Founder's Day in 1916 the participants
wore colored paper hats and sashes, for
identification as well as for fun. Presi-
dent of the class was Elder Richard R.
Lyman, apostle (center front).

(Center)

This was the view from University Hill,
looking toward Lower Campus before
1918. The smoke, which appears to be
coming from the University buildings,
was really from the smokestack of the
Knight Woolen Mills in downtown
Provo. The smokestack was still stand-
ing in 1975, although the Woolen Mills
burned down in 1918. Notice the
scattered homes and sheds in this part
of the city.

(Bottom)

The Provo Woolen Mills, completed in
1873 and enlarged at various times,
were later reincorporated under the
ownership of Jesse Knight. The mills
were at the peak of their success and
productivity when a disastrous fire in
July, 1918, wiped out the buildings at a
loss of more than $500,000. The
woolen mills never fully recovered.

(Top)

In 1917, while war raged in Europe,
President Brimhall proposed the es-
tablishment of a military course on
BYU campus in conjunction with the
physical education classes. The sug-
gestion was approved by President
Joseph F. Smith, and with the influence
of Senator Reed Smoot, accepted by the
U.S. Army, making BYU campus an
official camp of the Student Army
Training Corps. Although the quality
of the accompanying photograph is
poor, it shows the SATC soldiers stand-
ing at "port arms" on the steps of the
Maeser Building in 1918. An examina-
tion of the picture discloses that only
the men on the first row are in full
uniform. The soldiers were paid stan-
dard enlistment pay of thirty dollars a
month while attending school. The
Maeser Building became a barracks, and
women collected 300 mattresses and
900 quilts for the troops. Ernest L.
Wilkinson was quartered here in the

same room where he presided as presi-
dent of the University thirty-three years
later.

(Bottom)

In August, 1918, these forty BYU faculty
members and students were training at
the Presidio in San Francisco. When
war was declared in April, 1917, stu-
dents petitioned the administration to
let school out early so that they could
join the Army (commencement was in
early June). A total of 469 joined, of
whom sixteen were killed in action. Ac-
cording to J. M. Jensen's history of
Provo, "Food Will Win the War" be-
came the slogan, and many students did
not return to school in the fall until all
of the crops were in. Women faculty
members and students took up knitting
and sewing for the troops and the
Belgian children and completed large
numbers of sweaters, socks, shawls,
scarfs, dresses, and jackets. "The
Knitting Song," words and music by

Professor C. W. Reid, became popular
among the women.

A 4.

(Top)

During World War I students lent a
hand to the Third Liberty Loan cam-
paign to raise funds for support of the
U.S. war effort. These mechanical arts
students prepared posters reading:
"Thank God We Are Americans,"
"Now is the Time to Fight, Make Your
Dollars Win," "We Don't Want to be
Ruled by the Kaiser; We Are Ameri-
cans," "Training School 100% in Liberty
Loan," "3rd Liberty Loan Mass Meeting
Tabernacle Tonight," and "Make the
World a Better Place to Live." The
school collected over $7,000. Courtesy
of Lynn Wakefield.

Enthusiasm for the war movement
ran high at BYU, and President Brim-
hall held a number of patriotic assem-
blies. The June, 1917, commencement
(war had been declared in April) took
on the air of a patriotic assembly, for
which President Brimhall wrote a
special song, set to music by Professor
C. W. Reid:

Old Glory wave on, o'er the land of the
free,

The home of the fair and the brave ;

The land of oppression from mountain to
sea

Finds only a place for a grave.

The hands of a nation grasp firmly thy
staff,

In triumph they bear thee along ;

We join in a chorus, like millions before us,
Still pledging our banner in song.

(Center)

Although the quality of this photograph
is poor, it is nevertheless presented here
because of its important historical sig-
nificance. This was an assembly in
College Hall at which all of the students
wore hygienic masks as a precaution
against the virulent World War I in-
fluenza, which broke out in a massive
epidemic in 1918. The school was
forced to close for three months (Octo-
ber through December). Hundreds died
in Utah County, and some families were
entirely wiped out. The disease also
hit the two companies of soldiers in the
BYU Student Army Training Corps on
campus, but none of the soldiers died.
Women of the community baked and

cooked for the student soldiers and
nursed them back to health.

(Bottom)

To provide for the heavy vocational
emphasis in the Student Army Training
Corps course, the University, with
$43,000 provided by the Church, con-
structed the Mechanic Arts Building.
The ground breaking was held on
October 8, 1918. The boundaries of

the building were outlined with a plow
in the hands of Joseph B. Keeler, coun-
selor in the University presidency, and
pulled by representative students of
each class. The war ended November
11, 1918, but the building was com-
pleted for university training in auto
mechanics, blacksmithing, and wood-
work. Two floors were added in 1935,
and the name of the building was
changed to the George H. Brimhall
Building.

'■

■;

1 1

f !

(Top)

This auto mechanics class was held in
the Mechanic Arts Building, constructed
in 1918. Blacksmithing and wood-
working were also taught in the building.

(Center)

Athletes in the 1919 Invitational Track
and Field Meet leap over wooden hur-
dles as they race around the old grand-
stand track near the Mechanic Arts
Building, which was then under con-
struction.

(Bottom)

Bloomered girls race for the finish line
in a 1920 Girls' Day competition at the
old grandstand, which was located
about where the Joseph Smith Memorial
Building now stands. The Maeser
Building is in the background.

(Top)

In this dedicatory page of the 1918
Banyan, America weeps for her lost
sons in the great conflict of World War
I, as the famous lines by Rudyard Kip-
ling are presented for the attention of
the students: "Lest we forget — lest

we forget." The war continued for more
than five months after this edition
appeared.

( Bottom )

This plaque honoring the University's
World War I dead is mounted in the
Memorial Hall of the Wilkinson Center.

■ TW

The tumult

dies; (

The captains and nft os depart

in Shine ancie.ru; sacrifice.

Hn humble and a contrite heart:.
Lord God of hosts, be with os yet.
Lest we forget - test we boroet!

■ ^fti|»ling'

WHO G

ANDERSON. DARRELL
ANDERSON. GEORGE E.
ARGYLE. HORACE R.
CARD. REED
CHIPMAN. J. WESLEY
DEAN. LEROY
EKINS. ABEL J.

HALES. HOWARD

HICKMAN. LEONIDAS
HINCKLEY. STANLEY
JOHNSON. ARNOLD E
LOCKHART. DAN
PETERSON. FRANK
RADMALL. REUBEN
TWELVES. ROLAND
ZABRISKIE. WALTER

Maturity and
Recognition

1921-1945

Dr. Franklin S. Harris as he appeared in
the early years of his administration.

Franklin Stewart Harris, fifth president
of Brigham Young University, was born
in Benjamin, Utah, on August 29, 1884,
second son of Dennison Emer and
Eunice Stewart Harris. His father was
superintendent of schools in Nebo
District of Utah County and later taught
in Mexico.

Franklin was reared in Mexico, where
he attended elementary schools and
Juarez Academy, and he came to BYU
for one year before returning in 1904 as
a teacher of science in the Juarez Acad-
emy. At BYU the next year, he served
as an assistant to Dr. John A. Widtsoe,
head of the Department of Agriculture.
He received his bachelor's degree in
1907. At BYU he met Estella Spilsbury,
a pretty coed from Tocquerville, Utah.

They married in 1908 and became the
parents of two sons and four daughters.

Encouraged by Dr. Widtsoe, Franklin
and Estella journeyed in 1908 to Cornell
University, where he pursued his doc-
torate in soil science, plant physiology,
and chemistry. On graduating in 1911
he was appointed to a professorship at
Utah State Agricultural College and
later served there as director of the
School of Agricultural Engineering and
director of the Experiment Station.

On April 22, 1921 (at age 36) Dr.
Harris was appointed president of
Brigham Young University to succeed
George H. Brimhall. He was the first
president of the institution to have a
Ph.D., and the time had arrived for a
man of his professional attainments and
vision. The institution had taken on the
name of "University” in 1903; it
awarded B.A. degrees in 1906 and
master's degrees in 1916, yet by 1920
had a college enrollment of only 438,
and its degrees were not accredited.

In his inaugural address, the dynamic
Dr. Harris expressed his intention to
make BYU "The Great Church Univer-
sity," and he soon brought about vast
changes in fulfillment of this dream. By
his enthusiastic and dedicated leader-
ship he inspired the faculty and stu-
dents, and during his administration of
twenty-four years (longer than any
other president), the student body in-
creased from 438 to over 4,000. He
transformed the institution from a
small, church-sponsored school into a
university of national accreditation and
reputation.

Academic offerings, standards of
scholarship, and stature of the faculty
of 150 also rose remarkably during his
administration. The administrative
council decided that the Brigham Young
High School should no longer be a func-
tioning part of the University, except as
a secondary training school under the
College of Education. There had been a
continual flow between the high school
and the college, but this was stopped as
a clean separation was made and high
school students were restricted from
college work. In view of the change, the

"High School Building" became the
"Education Building." Also BYU ac-
cepted only students in good standing
from accredited schools and increased
requirements for both entrance and
graduation.

In line with the organization of other
universities. Dr. Harris abandoned the
old presidency and the School of Edu-
cation and School of Arts and Sciences
in favor of the regular colleges and
divisions employed by leading institu-
tions. Early in the Harris administra-
tion the colleges of Arts and Sciences,
Commerce and Business Administra-
tion, Education, Applied Science, and
Fine Arts were organized; also the Divi-
sion of Religion, the Graduate School,
the Extension Division, and the Research
Division. The five colleges encom-
passed thirty-four departments. In-
augurated also were the Rocky Moun-
tain Speech and Drama Festival, the
Heber J. Grant Oratorical Contest,
Leadership (Education) Week, academic
costume at commencement (1922), the
Alpine Summer School, the Intermoun-
tain Commercial Contest, and the High
School Journalism Conference.

President Harris put on an intensive
campaign for national recognition and
accreditation, and the University suc-
ceeded in becoming accredited by the
Northwest Association of Secondary
and Higher Schools (1922), the Ameri-
can Council on Education (1923), the
National Association of Colleges and
Universities (1924), the Association of
American Colleges (1926), and the
Association of American Universities
(1928).

Dr. Harris knew that a great univer-
sity must have at its heart a great li-
brary; the first building constructed
during his administration was the Heber
J. Grant Library (1925). Also built dur-
ing his presidency were the president's
home on campus (1928), the stadium
(1928), the Brimhall Building (1935),
the Stadium House (1936), Allen Hall
(1938) and Amanda Knight Hall (1939),
and the Joseph Smith Memorial Build-
ing (1941).

Sometimes faculty members com-

plained that President Harris spent too
much for acquisition of land, books for
the library, and valuable paintings, but
the future expansion of the school bore
out his wisdom. The library had only
17,000 volumes when he arrived, but
138,750 when he resigned in 1945. He
also expanded the campus to 140 acres,
and the Art Department had 700 valu-
able paintings in its galleries.

President Harris arranged a rich
offering of concerts, recitals, plays and
operas, and exhibits, in addition to ac-
quiring hundreds of important paintings
and art objects. The distinguished posi-
tion enjoyed by the University as a fine
arts center is largely due to his support.
The reputation of the University for a
great lyceum course of the world's finest
musical artists is a product of the per-
sonal encouragement and support given
by President Harris to John C. Swensen
and Herald R. Clark as lyceum chairmen.

There was much discussion in the
Church during the late 1920s and early
1930s about getting out of competition
with state schools and closing the entire
Church School System in favor of in-
stitutes and seminaries. Indeed, the
Church did close twelve academies be-
tween 1921 and 1924 and by 1933
had turned over Dixie, Snow, and
Weber Colleges to the state of Utah.
Regardless of this trend, strong friends
of BYU in high Church positions, par-
ticularly Elder David O. McKay, in-
sisted on making BYU the central school
in the system to be developed as a com-
plete university.

During the Great Depression of the
entire decade of the 1930s, BYU oper-
ated under tremendous difficulties as
faculty members took a 22 Vi percent
cut in salary and students barely sub-
sisted by "batching." The buildings
and facilities were neglected because
the Church was in financial difficulty.
Nevertheless, enrollment gained during
the period as students preferred to be
educated rather than unemployed, and
the faculty remained amazingly loyal.
In fact, enrollment reached 2,000 in
1935, while most other schools experi-
enced declines. Many students were

able to continue through the aid of
federal agencies, such as the National
Youth Administration. Notwithstand-
ing these stringencies. President Harris
insisted on maintaining national aca-
demic standing, and BYU emerged from
the crisis more mature and on a solid
footing.

A major organizational change came
in 1939, when the Board of Trustees,
which had been made up of local mem-
bers, was changed to a board of General
Authorities.

At the suggestion of the General
Authorities, President Harris ran for the
U.S. Senate in 1938 but lost the elec-
tion to the incumbent, Elbert D. Thomas.

In 1926 President Harris attended the
Pan-Pacific Science Congress in Japan.
In 1929 he acted as chairman, with
Kiefer Sauls as secretary, of a commis-
sion sent to Siberia by the Jewish people
of America to investigate a colonization
plan in the Amur Valley. He later
(1935) was chairman of the agricultural
section of the Pan-American Scientific
Congress in Mexico City, agricultural
adviser from the United States to Iran
(1939), chairman of a mission to the
Middle East to determine agricultural
needs, and chairman of a United Na-
tions mission to Greece to study long-
term agricultural needs (1946). These
foreign assignments brought consider-
able national and international attention
to BYU and served to gain respect for
both Dr. Harris and the University.

Dr. Harris was author of six books
and over six hundred scientific papers
and articles, a member of fifteen promi-
nent professional societies, and presi-
dent of five of them.

In 1945 he accepted an appointment
as president of Utah State Agricultural
College, serving five years. He died on
April 18, 1960. On April 3, 1965, the
Franklin S. Harris Fine Arts Center was
named in his honor.

(Top left)

President Franklin S. Harris in the later
years of his administration.

(Top right)

At the head of the procession at the
inauguration of Dr. Franklin S. Harris
as president of Brigham Young Univer-
sity on October 17, 1921, were, from
left to right: Elders John A. Widtsoe
and Rudger Clawson, T. N. Taylor of
the Board of Trustees (barely visible).
Elder Richard R. Lyman, Guy C. Wilson
(back), and Dr. Harris. The procession
moved from the Education Building to
the Tabernacle, a distance of six blocks.

(Center)

Inauguration ceremonies for President
Franklin S. Harris were held in the
Provo Tabernacle. Many General Au-
thorities of the Church were on the
stand as well as the outgoing president,
George H. Brimhall. On the left was a
pennant from Cornell, where Dr. Harris
had received the Ph.D. degree, and on
the right a Y pennant. He was the
first BYU president ever to enter office
with a Ph.D. degree, and in his inaugu-
ral address expressed his intention of
making BYU "The Great Church
University."

(Bottom)

This photograph was taken at a recep-
tion for President and Mrs. Franklin S.
Harris at the home of President George
H. Brimhall soon after Dr. Harris's in-
auguration as University president.
President Harris maintained an "open
door" policy and was accessible to stu-
dents as well as faculty.

(Top left)

President Franklin S. Harris (at top of
stairs) shakes hands with William H.
Snell of Industrial Education at his
reception at the home of President
George H. Brimhall. Mrs. Harris is at
his right.

(Top right)

Edward H. Holt, secretary to the faculty,
served as acting president of BYU in
1929, while President Harris was still in
Russia. Mr. Holt was also a professor
of office practice from 1892 to 1938.

(Center left)

Kiefer B. Sauls was secretary of the dele-
gation to Russia of which President
Franklin S. Harris was chairman in
1929. Mr. Sauls served as treasurer of
the University for fifty years, retiring in
1971. A conference room in the Abra-
ham O. Smoot Administration Building
was named in his honor.

(Center right)

Dr. L. John Nuttall was dean of the
College of Education from 1926 to 1930
and served as acting president of the
University (1926-27) while President
Franklin S. Harris was on an agricul-
tural mission to the Orient. Amos N.
Merrill, who had been a counselor to
President Brimhall, was dean of the
College of Education from 1930 to 1945.

(Bottom)

Dr. Christen Jensen, left, a specialist in
history and government, served as act-
ing president while President Franklin
S. Harris, right, was on an agricultural
advisory mission to Iran from 1939 to
1940. Dr. Jensen was dean of the Col-
lege of Applied Science, 1924-29, then
dean of the Graduate School for twenty
years. He also served as acting presi-
dent of the University from 1949 to
1950 between the administrations of
Presidents Howard S. McDonald and
Ernest L. Wilkinson. The council room
on the top floor of the Smoot Adminis-
tration Building was named in honor of
Dr. Jensen.

(Top left)

From 1921, at the organization of the
College of Education, until 1925,
sociologist John C. Swensen served as
acting dean. He previously had been
dean of the College Division, 1904-10,
and was the school's first coach. Swen-
sen, who lived from 1869 to 1953, joined
the faculty in 1898 and was chairman of
the Sociology Department for thirty
years. He was associated in the Lyceum
program (concert and artist series) with
Herald R. Clark for many years. A
room in the Smith Family Living Center
and a building in the Wymount Terrace
residence complex were named in his
honor.

(Top center)

Dr. Martin P. Henderson was the first
dean of the College of Arts and Sciences

(1921). This area included biological
and physical sciences, humanities, lan-
guages, and social sciences.

(Top right)

Dr. Carl F. Eyring succeeded Dr. Hen-
derson as dean of the College of Arts
and Sciences in 1924 and served until
his death in 1951. The Carl F. Eyring
Physical Sciences Center is named in
his honor. A noted acoustical physicist,
he made important discoveries about
the characteristics of sound in the ocean
and in the jungle, and worked with the
motion picture sound stage.

(Bottom left)

Dr. Harrison Val Hoyt was the first
dean of the College of Commerce from
1921 to 1931.

(Bottom center)

Dean of the College of Commerce (later
the College of Business) from 1934 to
1951 was Herald R. Clark, who had
been a student at BYU and who joined
the faculty in 1913 as instructor in ac-
counting. He was nationally known as
the chairman of the Lyceum concerts
committee from 1913 to his death in
1966. He brought the world's finest
artists and musical organizations to
Provo. He was also collector of a vast
number of valuable art objects for BYU.
The Herald R. Clark Building, built
largely from profits of the Bookstore
because of his genius, was named in his
honor.

(Bottom right)

After a brief term by Amy L. Merrill as
first dean of women, Henriette (Nettie)

100

Neff Smart took over that position in
1925 and served until her death in 1945.
Previously she had been an instructor in
the Training School.

(Top left)

Dr. Gerrit de Jong, Jr., linguist, author,
musician, and composer, was first dean
of the College of Fine Arts and served
in that position until 1959. The concert
hall in the Harris Fine Arts Center was
named in his honor. He was first di-
rector of the Centro Cultural Brasil-
Estados Unidos in Santos, Brazil. He
was a member of the Church Music
Committee for thirty-three years and
served on the Sunday School General
Board for thirty-four years. He wrote a
monumental book on Portuguese litera-
ture. In 1974 he was still active in the
Spanish and Portuguese department.

(Top right)

Dr. Thomas L. Martin, dean of the
College of Applied Science (1937-45)
and nationally noted agronomist, is
shown with his agronomy class in the
Brimhall Building in the 1930s. The
Thomas L. Martin Building in the Life
Sciences Center was named in his honor
in 1970. He joined the faculty in 1921
and served a total of thirty-seven years.

(Bottom left)

A. Rex Johnson was the first secretary
of the BYU Alumni Association. He
graduated in 1924 (as student body
president), then taught at BYU, obtain-
ing a Ph.D. in business at George
Washington University. He served
twelve years as part-time alumni sec-
retary. He was succeeded by C. R.
Peterson, 1938-42; Ralph Britsch, 1942-

45; Frank Haymore, 1945-46; Harold
Glen Clark, 1947-51 ; W. Cleon Skousen,
1952-54; Raymond E. Beckham (who
was appointed the first full-time execu-
tive director of alumni relations in
1954); and Ronald G. Hyde, 1966 to the
present.

(Bottom right)

Members of the Board of Trustees and
University officials at a commencement
in the 1920s: Royal Murdock, left;

Lafayette Holbrook, President Franklin
S. Harris, Joseph A. Reese, Susa Y.
Gates, former President George H.
Brimhall, Zina Y. Card, Elder Joseph
Fielding Smith (apostle of the LDS
Church), President Heber J. Grant, and
Elders James E. Talmage, John A.
Widtsoe, and Stephen L Richards,
apostles.

101

(Top)

The faculty quartet, which performed
on many occasions, included in 1923:
Thomas L. Martin, left; T. Earl Pardoe,
Franklin Madsen, and Carl Christensen.

(Center)

Home economics students and faculty
in the 1920s paused for this photograph
in the Arts Building during their annual
dinner, which was a part of their final
instruction. Faculty members are,
standing: Vilate Elliot (white hair, left),
Effie Warnick (center, glasses), and lone
Palfreyman (far right).

(Bottom)

President Harris with the College of
Arts and Sciences faculty in 1928.
Front row: Hilda Knudsen, Christen

Jensen, President Harris, former Presi-
dent George H. Brimhall; back row:
Laval S. Morris, Maud Tuckfield, lone
Palfreyman, Anna Page, Bent F. Larsen,
Vilate Elliot, Effie Warnick, Thomas L.
Martin, Clawson Y. Cannon.

102

(Top)

The Fine Arts faculty of the 1920s, pos-
ing on the steps of the Karl G. Maeser
Memorial Building, included left to
right, front row: J. McAllister, Anna
Huish Heaton, Bessie E. Gourley, Dean
Gerrit de Jong, Jr.; on first and second
steps: Elbert Eastmond, Lucille Tuttle,

President Franklin S. Harris, T. Earl
Pardoe, Florence Jepperson Madsen,
Elmer Nelson, Ralph Booth; back row:
William F. Hanson, Hannah Packard,
Franklin Madsen, George Fitzroy, B. F.
Cummings, Edgar M. Jensen, B. F.
Larsen, LeRoy Robertson, Robert Sauer,
and Gustav Buggert.

(Bottom left and right)

An effective husband-wife team that
served the BYU Music Department for
nearly half a century was formed by Dr.
Hans Franklin Madsen and Dr. Florence
Jepperson Madsen, who were married in
1922 when both were members of the
BYU music faculty. In recognition of
their service, the University named the
Madsen Recital Hall in the Harris Fine
Arts Center in their honor on Novem-
ber 23, 1965. The Franklin S. Harris
Fine Arts Award was conferred upon
them in commencement exercises in
May, 1971. Franklin received the Dis-
tinguished Service Award of the BYU
Alumni Association, and Florence re-
ceived the David O. McKay Humanities
Award.

A concert contralto, Florence sang
extensively in the East and West, and
taught at BYU at various times from
1905 to 1920, when she was appointed
head of the BYU Music Department.
She served in that capacity from 1920
to 1930. Franklin had taught in high
schools and was supervisor of music in
Nebo and Jordan School Districts be-
fore joining the BYU faculty in 1919.
Together they tutored and conducted
students of BYU in the production of
various operas, concerts, and oratorios
throughout the administrations of three
presidents. Franklin was considered a
national authority on Handel's
"The Messiah."

In 1941 Florence was appointed to
the Relief Society General Board and
was put in charge of the activities of all
the Singing Mothers organizations. In
1961 she was called by the First Presi-
dency of the Church to train and con-
duct an international chorus of 250 sing-
ing mothers in Great Britain. After the
International Singing Mothers sang for
the dedication of the new Hyde Park
chapel in London, she conducted them
in concerts throughout Great Britain.
In all, she wrote over 100 compositions.

103

(Top)

Dr. H. Franklin Madsen (with baton)
and Dr. Gerrit de Jong, Jr., first dean of
the College of Fine Arts (center), pose
with part of a large mixed chorus in
about 1928. Only half of the chorus
appears in the photograph because of
space limitations. The girls wore the
fringed and unshaped dresses typical
of the 1920s, along with marcelled hair
and spitcurls.

(Center)

From 1905 to 1920 Florence Jepperson
Madsen was a concert artist of some
renown, appearing in Boston, New
York, and other eastern cities, and in
many concerts also in western states.
This was one of the posters advertising
one of her appearances in Utah. This
photograph of her also appeared on the
literature of her Boston management.

(Bottom) H-309

This group of BYU Faculty women,
photographed in 1928, included, front
row, left to right: Stella P. Rich, Elsie
C. Carroll, Alice Louise Reynolds, Nettie
N. Smart, Ida Smoot Dusenberry;
second row: Betha Roberts, Anna

Ollorton, Vilate Elliot, Myrtie Jensen;
third row: Maud Tuckfield, lone Pal-
freyman, Hilda Knudsen, and Anna
Egbert.

MUM CONCEBT

L.D.S. MEETING HOUSE
Florence Jepperson

Utah’s Greatest Contralto

v* 1 i > i d l

S ^ * :

|L#

104

(Top)

President Franklin S. Harris and T. N.
Taylor, the latter a member of the Board
of Trustees, take time out for a round of
golf. They were nattily attired in
knickers and loud golf socks.

( Center )

Dr. Parley A. Christensen, English pro-
fessor, was a master teacher at BYU
from 1927 to 1964, a total of 37 years,
serving in that time for twenty-five
years as chairman of the English De-
partment and for twenty years as chair-
man of the Athletic Council.

(Bottom)

Three stalwarts in the BYU libraries
were Anna Ollorton, seated, who joined
the staff as assistant librarian in 1919
and served as librarian from 1931 to
1948; Newbern I. Butt, researcher and
assistant professor, on the library staff
from 1922 to 1968; and Naoma Rich,
who joined the staff in 1937 and was
librarian from 1953 to 1957 and coor-
dinator of technical services from 1959
to 1961.

105

(Top)

This was the Brigham Young Univer-
sity campus in 1929. On Temple Hill
were the Maeser Memorial Building
(foreground); the Heber J. Grant Li-
brary (right), which was dedicated in
1925; the Mechanic Arts Building, a
one-story structure to which two stories
were added in 1935 to become the Brim-
hall Building; and the president's home,
which was remodeled in 1928. Only
three of the five seating sections had
been completed in the new hillside
stadium. At top right was Raymond
Grove, and beyond that farms operated
by the school.

(Center)

The first footpath up the hill to the
Maeser Building consisted of wooden
steps and boardwalks. In the early
1920s, when a grass fire destroyed the
walk, President Harris authorized con-
struction of concrete walks and steps.
The project was completed in 1924.

( Bottom)

Access to the upper campus was along
the south slope of Temple Hill from
Eighth North and Second East. On "Y"
Day in 1926 the students improved the
dirt road with gravel and constructed
concrete retaining walls. It was not
until 1931, when the office of the presi-
dent and other administrative offices
moved from the Education Building to
the Maeser Building that this road was
oiled.

106

(Top)

This home (foreground), as seen from
the top of the Maeser Building before
1928, was remodeled to become the
president's home. Beyond it at the top
of the hill were a house and barns used
by Otis L. Terry between 1918 and 1923
before the stadium was built on the hill-
side. This house was built in 1909 for
Dr. Martin P. Henderson, dean of Arts
and Sciences, and sold to BYU in 1923
by Henderson's family after his death.

(Center)

The president's home looked like this
during remodeling in 1928. William H.
Snell was in charge of construction.

(Bottom)

President Harris and his family were the
first to live in the president's home
after it was remodeled. All presidents
of the University since that time have
lived here, and each one has made his
own renovations.

107

(Top)

The west side of Temple Hill was chosen
for a football field and stadium site
when President Harris arrived on cam-
pus in 1921, and he and Herald R. Clark
were instrumental in planning the
stadium. The land was once the lower
part of Manavu Townsite, a fund-
raising development which was aban-
doned by the University. With students
and faculty donating much of the labor,
the field was leveled and the east Union
Canal diverted into a syphon under the
field. Teams of horses were donated by
the Wasatch Grading Company, cinders
for the track by Columbia Steel Cor-
poration, and hauling by the Denver
and Rio Grande Western Railroad.
Profits of the bookstore were applied to
the cost, and seats were sold to help pay
expenses. In this photo concrete is be-
ing poured for the seats. The stadium
was completed in 1928.

(Center)

This photograph shows the method
used in grading the hillside for the
stadium.

(Bottom)

This was the scene at a football game in
the old hillside stadium in the 1950s.
The stadium was first used September
29, 1928 (the year Ott Romney became
head coach), for the football game be-
tween the BYU Cougars and the College
of Idaho Coyotes in the old Rocky
Mountain Conference. BYU won the
game 9 — 6. However, the dedication
of the stadium on October 27, 1928,
was marred when BYU lost the dedica-
tion game to the Utah State Aggies,
10 — 0.

108

(Top)

Commencement exercises were held in
the Cougar Stadium a couple of times,
but since officials disliked the location,
the services were continued in other
buildings.

( Center )

The old stadium was used by the LDS
Explorer Scouts as an ideal location for
their official photograph in which they
spelled out "LDS Explorer" in living
letters. Several of these conferences
were held on campus during the 1960s.

(Bottom)

The old hillside stadium, the scene of
hundreds of football games, track meets,
posture parades, commencements,
dramatic productions, public meetings,
rallies, and numerous other events for
thirty-five years, was condemned and
demolished during the summer of 1972.
Abandoned after the 1963 season be-
cause of the construction of the new
all-steel stadium and the construction in
1965 of the Richards Building in the
area, the old wood and reinforced con-
crete bleachers deteriorated and became
weed infested. They were declared too
dangerous to use and too expensive to
restore as an ampitheater. Landscaping
now marks the site of those exciting
events.

109

(Top)

The Semi-Centennial of Brigham Young
University was observed by three days
of activities: October 15, 16, and 17,
1925. A major event on the second day
was an academic procession to the
Provo Tabernacle in which representa-
tives of thirty-eight universities and six
educational societies participated. At
the Tabernacle the main address was
delivered by Dr. Herbert Eugene Bolton,
curator of the Bancroft Library and head
of the History Department at the Uni-
versity of California, who spoke on
"Brigham Young as an Empire Builder,
or The Mormons in the Development of
the Great West." The Banyan reported
that he held the "vast audience almost
spellbound for two hours." In his re-
marks which followed. President Heber
J. Grant said he could have listened
much longer. The first day's events
included a meeting in College Hall (at
which former President George H.
Brimhall, Superintendent Adam S.
Bennion, and Colonel Willard Young,
son of Brigham Young, were speakers)
and an evening alumni dinner, ad-
dressed by David J. Wilson. A poem,
"Semi-centennial Prayer," by Annie
Pike Greenwood, was read by Alice
Louise Reynolds.

(Center)

The final day of the Semi-Centennial
celebration included a football game
with Colorado College (at Colorado
Springs), which BYU won 7 — 6, and a
parade downtown. The parade started
at the Education Building, proceeded
south on University Avenue, then west
to Third West, the site of the old Lewis
Building, where Lars E. Eggertsen gave
a talk. It then countermarched to Uni-
versity Avenue and south to the old
ZCMI warehouse, where school once
was held and where Edwin S. Hinckley
gave a talk. The parade then moved
north on University Avenue and east on
Eighth North to the Maeser Building.
The day concluded with a dance in the
Women's Gymnasium.

110

( Opposite page, bottom)

This was the scene as the Semi-Cen-
tennial parade moved east on Eighth
North toward the campus.

(Top)

When the Semi-Centennial parade
reached the Maeser Memorial Building,
the BYU Band under the direction of
Professor Robert Sauer formed a circle
on the lawn west of the building and
gave an impromptu concert.

(Center)

Children of the Brigham Young Train-
ing School who participated in the
Semi-Centennial celebration. Courtesy
of Church Archives, The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

(Bottom)

One of the parade floats in the Semi-
Centennial celebration carried members
of the original class of twenty-nine
students of President Karl G. Maeser.
Standing in front of the float are Presi-
dent Franklin S. Harris and Elder John
A. Widtsoe, apostle.

Ill

(Top)

The finale of the Semi-Centennial pa-
rade at the Maeser Building.

(Center)

Groundbreaking ceremonies for the
Heber J. Grant Library were held on
Founder's Day, 1924, and the school
was able to hold Semi-Centennial dedi-
cation services the following year.
Speaking at the ceremonies is T. N.
Taylor of the Board of Trustees, right;
second man unidentified; J. Will Knight,
board member; Stephen L. Chipman,
board member; former President George
H. Brimhall; President Franklin S.
Harris; Dean of Commerce Harrison
Val Hoyt; and E. H. Holt, secretary of
the faculty. The paper hats were worn
for class identification.

(Bottom)

On the afternoon of October 16, 1925,
the Heber J. Grant Library was dedi-
cated as part of the three-day Semi-
Centennial celebration. It was the first
building in fifty years devoted entirely
to a library. The services were held in
the reading room of the new building,
with President Heber J. Grant (center
on the aisle) giving the dedicatory
prayer. Other speakers were President
Franklin S. Harris, President E. G.
Peterson of the Utah State Agricultural
College, Dr. John A. Widtsoe of the
Church School Commission, Elder
Richard R. Lyman, apostle. Dr. C. N.
Jensen, superintendent of public instruc-
tion, President T. N. Taylor of Utah
Stake, and Mrs. Grant. Near President
Grant are President Harris, former
President George H. Brimhall, and Alice
Louise Reynolds, who, with Librarian
Annie L. Gillespie, was instrumental in
obtaining the new building. The build-
ing opened with 40,000 volumes on its
shelves and contained 138,750 when
President Harris resigned in 1945. It
could seat 400 of the 1,350 students on
campus at that time for a seating of 30
percent, a level never to be attained
again.

112

(Top)

The hillside appeared rather barren
soon after construction of the Heber J.
Grant Library. Funds for the project
were provided by the Church, including
$125,000 for the building and $40,000
for books. Joseph Nelson was architect
of the structure, which included 23,133
square feet of floor space (the Harold B.
Lee Library has 205,000 square feet
and is in the process of being doubled).
The books from the old library in the
Education Building were hauled to the
Grant Library by horse and wagon. It
was the intention of the administration
to enlarge the building on the north
side; consequently, a suitable north
entrance was omitted. However, the
anticipated expansion never material-
ized, as rapid growth of the student
body made expansion of that building
impractical. Courtesy of Utah State
Historical Society.

(Center)

Half of the upper floor of the Grant
Library was occupied by a large study
hall.

(Bottom)

More than a library, the study hall of
the Heber J. Grant Library was some-
times used for important banquets. For
many years registration was also held
here.

113

(Top)

The Heber J. Grant Building (the word
"Library” was dropped) as it appeared
in 1961 when it was converted from a
library to a Life Sciences Museum and
office building after construction of the
Harold B. Lee Library.

( Center )

The Alpine summer school, located at
Aspen Grove in a high valley behind
Mount Timpanogos in the north fork of
Provo Ganyon, was instituted by Presi-
dent Harris soon after his arrival on
campus. He knew of other universities
that had similar high mountain retreats
where classwork could be carried out
and summer heat avoided. It would be
difficult to find a more favorable spot in
the world for natural grandeur and
pleasant atmosphere. The land was
donated through the generosity of the
Stewart family, who owned consider-
able land in the area for sheep grazing:
the families of John R. Stewart, Scott P.
Stewart, Joseph Nelson, Rose Young
Stewart, and Melissa R. Stewart, all of
Provo. BYU men involved in the sum-
mer school were Hugh M. Woodward,
first dean of the summer school; Claw-
son Y. Cannon, later dean; and Herald
R. Clark. The camp was discontinued
during World War II. An attempt to
revive it after the war was abandoned
because of the vast influx of students. It
was taken over by the BYU Alumni
Association as the Aspen Grove Family
Camp in 1963, and more land and
improvements were added.

( Bottom)

Tents were first used for housing at the
Alpine summer school, but as it grew in
popularity, cabins were built for faculty
and women students. A men's dormi-
tory and a dining hall were also con-
structed.

114

(Top left)

Classes at the Alpine summer school
were conducted in tents, and the par-
ticipants wore mountain togs and high
boots.

(Top right)

Dr. Hugh M. Woodward (education)
was first dean of the summer school.

(Center)

An early faculty at the Alpine summer
school included, front row, left to right:
Elder John A. Widtsoe, apostle, John C.
Swensen, Lee Randolph, Nettie Smart
(dean of women), Adam S. Bennion
(later an apostle), Vasco M. Tanner,
A. O. Garrett; second row: Guy C.

Wilson, Murray Hayes, P. A. Christen-
sen, Lowry Nelson, and Walter P.
Cottam.

(Bottom)

Half the thrill of the summer school
camp was getting there over steep,
narrow, unimproved roads in flivvers of
the 1920s.

115

(Top left)

Hap Hodson, chief cook at the Alpine
campus, rang the always welcome
dinner bell.

(Top right)

These coeds, clad variously in mountain
clothes and the fashionable flapper
costume of the day, adorn the "belle"
tower at the Alpine summer school
camp. It was a decade when women
won the right to vote, bobbed their hair,
shortened their skirts, and applied
plenty of makeup.

(Center)

The Alpine summer school was ideal for
outdoor art classes. This one was
taught by B. F. Larsen, far left.

(Bottom)

The Alpine campus was a good place
also for musicians to practice without
bothering their neighbors, as dis-
covered by Mark K. Allen, later a
faculty member, and Webster Tucker.
Courtesy of Church Archives, The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints.

116

(Top)

Student excursions to the Alpine cam-
pus were as much fun as an old-
fashioned hayride.

(Center)

Visiting faculty member T. S. Knaphus
sculpts a bust of Dr. John A. Widtsoe
during a class at Aspen Grove.

(Bottom)

One of the later faculties at the Alpine
summer school (about 1938) included,
seated, left to right: Q. Elmo Coffman,
Karl Young, M. Lynn Bennion, Presi-
dent Franklin S. Harris, Franklin L.
West, Elsie C. Carroll, A. C. Lambert,
Carma Ballif; standing: Edna Snow,

Elmer Miller, John E. Hayes, B. F. Lar-
sen, Herald R. Clark, Kathryn B. Par-
doe, Oliver R. Smith, Gerrit de Jong, Jr.,
John R. Halliday, Vasco M. Tanner,
Harrison R. Merrill, John C. Swensen,
Russel Swensen, and Wayne B. Hales.

117

(Top)

Life at the Alpine summer school was
fun for everybody but the burro.

(Bottom left)

A giant both in stature and contribu-
tions was Harrison R. Merrill, who
joined the BYU faculty in 1921. At
various times he was a member of the
English faculty, director of the Exten-
sion Division, head of the Journalism
Department, director of the News
Bureau, and editor of The Improvement
Era. He organized the Western League
of Writers and Utah Sings, which con-
tinued to be published in the state for
several editions after his death in 1938.
His sentiments for the Aspen Grove and
Timpanogos scenes are expressed in
his poem, "Let This Be Heaven":

Oh, God, let this be heaven —

I do not ask for golden streets,

Or long for jasper walls,

Nor do l sigh for pearly shores
Where twilight never falls;

Just leave me here beside these peaks,

In this rough western land,
l love this hard old world of thine —

Dear God, you understand.

Oh, God, let this be heaven —

/ do not crave white, stainless robes,

I'll keep these marked by toil ;

Instead of straight and narrow walks
I love trails soft with soil ;

I have been healed by crystal streams,
By these from snow-crowned peaks
Where dawn burns incense to the day
And paints the sky in streaks.

Dear God, let this be heaven —

/ do not ask for angel wings,

Just leave that old peak there
And let me climb 'til comes the night —

I want no golden stair,

Then, when I say my last adieu
And all farewells are given
Just leave my spirit here somewhere
Oh, God, let this be heaven.

(Bottom right)

The Extension Division (later Continu-
ing Education) was organized in 1921
with Lowry Nelson, formerly editor of
the Utah Farmer and later a nationally
distinguished sociologist, as the first
director. As viewed by President Har-

ris, the Extension Division was designed
to bring the benefits of education to
those outside the classroom in the form
of correspondence study, lectures and

entertainment, social services, and pub-
lications. Lowry Nelson also served as
dean of the College of Applied Science
(1929-34).

118

(Top left)

Lowry Nelson was succeeded as director
of the Extension Division by Harrison
R. Merrill, who died in 1938, when
Carlton Culmsee took over as director,
head of the Journalism Department, and
director of public relations and publica-
tions. In this photograph Dr. Culmsee,
right center, is seen with his Extension
Division staff in 1942.

(Top right)

The long and short of faculty personnel
in the 1930s were diminutive Dr.
Thomas L. Martin, dean of the College
of Applied Science, and oversized Har-
rison R. Merrill, journalist, who suc-
ceeded Lowry Nelson as director of the
Extension Division. But both were big
men on campus. A building was later
named in honor of Dr. Martin and a

lecture room in the Harris Fine Arts
Center in honor of Professor Merrill.

(Bottom)

The first Leadership Week (later Educa-
tion Week) — a program designed to
bring residents of the area back to
campus to acquaint them with the Uni-
versity and to give them brief, helpful
courses for daily living and Church
leadership — was held January 23 to
28 in 1922, under the direction of Lowry
Nelson, Harrison R. Merrill, Eugene L.
Roberts, William H. Boyle, H. H. Wood-
ward, and Ethel Cutler. About 3,000
attended the first event. Activities in-
cluded instruction in scouting, geneal-
ogy, social relations, music, public
speaking and drama, homemaking,
missionary work, health, and teacher
training. The Leadership Week in 1926
was especially exciting because it
was carried for the first time on a
remote broadcast by KSL — two full
hours for ten dollars an hour. President
Heber J. Grant spoke to a capacity au-
dience in College Hall and to the wide-
spread radio audience.

119

(Top)

Patrons at a Leadership Week in the
1930s thronged the hallways of the
Education Building in search of their
classes. A schedule for the 11:30 a.m.
period was posted on the blackboard.
Leadership (Education) Weeks were
originally held in the winter so that
rural residents could more easily attend.
The event has been held annually, with
the exception of a few years during
World War II, to the present time. The
name was changed by the Board of
Trustees to Education Week in 1963.
They decided that it should not dupli-
cate the work of Church organizations
but should operate on a broader scope
of academic courses. By 1939 Educa-
tion Weeks were drawing participation
from ninety-five stakes and eight mis-
sions and later were held in other lo-
calities. In 1973 the program was
placed under the sponsorship of the
Division of Continuing Education in the
Church Educational System, and in
1974 it reached 90,000 participants in
about seventy localities.

(Center)

At an early Leadership (Education)
Week in College Hall, Elder David O.
McKay of the Council of the Twelve
Apostles spoke in the general assembly.
Seated on the stand were President
Franklin S. Harris, left; Professor Harri-
son R. Merrill, Extension Division and
Journalism; Stephen L. Chipman, board
member; Guy C. Wilson, director of the
Division of Religion; and John C. Swen-
sen, sociology and early dean of the
College of Education.

( Bottom )

Leadership Week visitors in 1940 par-
ticipated in making soil analyses in soil
bacteriology laboratory.

120

(Top)

Headquarters for Education Week were
changed from the Education Building to
the Joseph Smith Building after the
Smith Building was constructed in 1941,
and to the Ernest L. Wilkinson Center
after its construction in 1965.

(Center)

During the 1965 Education Week, an
elephant train was used to transport
patrons around campus, reminiscent of
transportation at a world's fair.

(Bottom)

Representing various virtues and fields
of knowledge, these 1920 senior stu-
dents participated in a pageant at the
Provo Tabernacle. Their names were
not carried in the yearbook, but alumni
of the time have identified them as,
standing, left to right: Nora Anderson,
Paul Mason, Jessie Ellsworth, William
Harrison, Afton Hinckley, LeRoy Cox,
Delilah Higgs, Lorin Jones, Fern Whit-
ing, Lois Blake, Bert Sumsion; seated:
Bachman, Billye Coleman, Nels Ander-
son.

121

(left)

Ernest L. Wilkinson, who became presi-
dent of the University in 1951, was a
formidable debater when he was a stu-
dent at BYU in 1920-21, a time when
debating was a major activity, attended
by crowds and reported prominently.
The report in the Banyan of a debate
with Princeton University on December
22, 1920, sounds like the blow by blow
description of a world championship
sporting event:

"The debate was a real one and a
thriller from beginning to end. It was
only within the last few minutes that

the local boys began to draw away from
their opponents. And that last rebuttal
from Ballif which clinched the argument
brought shouts of joy from the audience."

Team members were Wilkinson, H. G.
Harter, and George S. Ballif. Dressed
in the customary white ties for the oc-
casion, they took the negative of the
question: "Resolved: that the United
States should pass a law prohibiting
strikes in essential industries, constitu-
tionality waived."

(Top right)

Since students came from many sections
of the West, it was natural for them to
organize in geographic groups, such as
the Uintah, Sanpete, Millard, and Idaho
Clubs, and the Springvilliastas. This is

a photograph of the Spanish Fork Club
in 1920. The girl in the center near the
top is Alice Ludlow, who in 1923 mar-
ried the star BYU debater, Ernest L.
Wilkinson, later seventh president of
the University.

(Bottom right)

Student officers of the Board of Control
in 1921 were Ernest L. Wilkinson, left,
newspaper editor; Harold W. Brown;
Karl V. King; Whitehead; Vesta Pierce
(Crawford), secretary; Lavon Billings;
George Ballif, president; Kenneth E.
Weight; Grace Nixon (Stewart), vice-
president; Merrill J. Clayson; Ross
Bean; Fred L. Markham, Banyan editor;
and Roscoe Davis. Courtesy of Fred L.
Markham.

122

(Left)

The cougar was chosen as the mascot
for the University on October 1, 1923,
upon the suggestion of Coach Eugene L.
Roberts, who had previously used the
name to describe his athletes in news-
paper articles. The cougar was looked
upon most favorably because it is a
native Utah animal, powerful and agile,
wise and beautiful, lending itself to
artistic illustration. In 1925 Dave Rust,
an alumnus of BYU and a guide on the
Colorado River, wired Roberts that a
mother cougar and three kittens had
been captured. Two of the kittens were
brought to Provo and kept as mascots.
They became the private pets of George
K. (Georkee) Lewis (accompanying
photograph) who did much to popular-
ize the nickname by bringing the pets to
campus. Courtesy of Dr. Mark K. Allen.

(Top right)

The somewhat tame cougars, "Cleo"
and "Tarbo," were well known on
campus during 1925-26. Some panic
resulted when they were released on the

floor during a dance in the Women's of the Women's Gymnasium across the
Gymnasium. Courtesy of Dr. Mark K. street from the Education Building.
Allen. University Avenue was not paved at the

time.

(Bottom right)

Chairs of some of the BYU band mem-
bers were located in the mud as Pro-
fessor Robert Sauer sat at the head of
the group for this photo in 1923 in front

123

(Top)

The cafeteria in the Arts Building in the
1920s listed this menu on the black-

board:

Roast pork 10c

Creamed dried beef 5c

Potato puff 5c

Scalloped cauliflower 5c

Buttered beets 5c

Salmon & lettuce salad 5c

Gelatin fruit salad 10c

Fig tapioca 5c

Lemon pie 10c

Milk 5c

Bread 1c

Butter lc

(Center)

The junior-senior Wild West party in
the Women's Gymnasium in 1925,
punctuated by much firing of blank
cartridges, was so noisy the neighbors
complained. Courtesy of Dr. Mark K.
Allen.

(Bottom) H-373

These vivacious BYU flapper-coeds of
the 1920s were the official greeting
committee at the Provo railroad station.
At registration time they and other stu-
dent groups welcomed the arriving BYU
students, large numbers of whom
traveled by train in those days. The
practice started among Sanpete County
students, but soon spread to other in-
coming students. Notice the sign on the
station: "Have a Drink. Cold, Pure &
Fresh 'Provo Water' from Mountain
Springs." Courtesy of Homer Wake-
field.

124

(Top)

The dance drama "Aphrodite and
Adonis" was produced near Provo River
in 1923 by the women's physical educa-
tion class under the direction of Algie
Eggertson Ballif.

(Center)

Algie Eggertson Ballif, center, physical
education teacher in the early 1920s,
directs BYU girls in an interpretive
dance. Courtesy of Homer Wakefield.

(Bottom)

Student excursions on the "Orem,"
interurban train to Salt Lake City, were
occasions for happy excitement. Stu-
dents often rode the electric train to
attend ball games or sit in the "peanut
gallery" at the old Salt Lake Theater.

125

(Top left)

The "Orem" interurban train, which
operated from 1914 to 1946, ran be-
tween Provo and Salt Lake City. The
station was at First West and Center
streets, where the J. C. Penney store
stands, and the track ran west on Center
Street out of the city. Courtesy Provo
Chamber of Commerce.

(Top right)

Brigham Young University was the only
college that Philo T. Farnsworth, the
"father of television," ever attended.
Born in Indian Creek, near Beaver,
Utah, on August 19, 1906, Farnsworth
died March 11, 1971 at age 64, forty-
four years after transmitting the world's
first television picture.

As a youth of fifteen at Rigby, Idaho,
he described to his mathematics teacher
his scheme for sending pictures through
the air. The family moved to Provo in
1924, and he entered Brigham Young
University, where he spent two and
one-half years under such professors as

Dr. Carl F. Eyring and Dr. Milton Mar-
shall. It was at BYU that he met his
wife, Elma Gardner.

When his father died, Philo had to
leave school. He took his bride to San
Francisco, where he obtained financial
backing to set up a laboratory of mira-
cles. He obtained the first patent in
1927 for an electronic television system
that included the Farnsworth dissector
tube, one of the most important tele-
vision inventions. His ideas were first
demonstrated to newsmen in San Fran-
cisco in 1928. As the basic camera and
picture tubes did not exist, he had to
invent and build them himself. In 1931
he went to Philadelphia to set up a re-
search laboratory for the Philco Cor-
poration, and in 1934 he obtained the
first television broadcasting license ever
issued — X3KE.

In the summer of 1935 the Farns-
worth Television Company demon-
strated live television for large crowds
at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.
The company later became Capehart
Farnsworth Electronics Company. In-

ternational Telephone and Telegraph
acquired the concern in 1949, and
Farnsworth served as president and
technical director until 1967.

Television equipment today carries
approximately one hundred of Farns-
worth's patents. His early patents be-
came public domain before the industry
made commercial use of them, so he did
not benefit financially from their
royalties.

His fertile mind also contributed to
the invention of radar, the electron
microscope, infra-red night light sys-
tems, to understanding astronomy, and
to peaceful uses of nuclear energy. He
also delved into research on cancer,
infections, genetics, and endocrinology.

BYU conferred the Honorary Doctor
of Science degree on him in 1968.

(Bottom)

During the 1920s devotionals were held
three times a week in College Hall.
General Authorities and former Presi-
dent George H. Brimhall, as director of
theology, were frequent speakers.

126

mmm

•wit

(Top left )

The staff of the Y News struggles with
an edition in the staff room in the Edu-
cation Building in 1925. The Y News
replaced the White and Blue in 1921.

(Top right)

The first editor of the Y News was Alvin
G. Hubbard. On September 2, 1973, as
a successful Chicago attorney, he re-
turned to campus for a visit and looked
up the old newspaper. Here he displays
the front page of the first issue, Septem-
ber 21, 1921.

(Bottom)

More fun than study was in progress
when this 1925 class on Lower Campus
was photographed. Obviously the
teacher was not present.

127

(Top)

Tension was high at the 1926 Utah
High School Commercial Contest spon-
sored by Brigham Young University in
the Education Building. It expanded to
an intermountain contest and continued
until about 1950.

(Bottom left)

These southern belles graced the junior
prom in the Women's Gymnasium in
1926. Courtesy of Dr. Mark K. Allen.

(Bottom right)

Voted "most popular man" on campus
during the 1925-26 school year was
Ezra Taft Benson, later a member of the
Council of the Twelve Apostles of the
Church and Secretary of Agriculture
during the Eisenhower administration.
Courtesy of Dr. Mark K. Allen.

(Opposite page, top)

Equipped with skis, skates, snowshoes,
and toboggans, the Y Winter Walkers
reach the pavilion and pond at Vivian
Park in Provo Canyon in 1924 for a day
of snowy activity. In Utah at that time

128

there were no ski resorts with lifts, runs,
fancy buildings, and restaurants, but the
Y Winter Walkers improvised and had
great fun. Courtesy of Homer Wake-
field.

(Center)

The Brimhall Building had its beginning
in 1918 as the one-story Mechanic Arts
Building. In 1935 two additional floors
were added, bringing the total floor area
to 41,673 square feet. President Harris
desired to change the name, and it be-
came the George H. Brimhall Building
in honor of the former University Presi-
dent. It was dedicated by President
Heber J. Grant at ceremonies seen in
this photograph taken on October 16,
1935. It has also housed at various
times the Biological Sciences Depart-
ments, the Extension Division (Con-
tinuing Education), the Journalism De-
partment (Department of Communica-
tions), and more recently the Indian
education programs and the Interior
Design Department.

(Bottom)

In 1937 President Harris presented
plans to erect Allen Hall, a residence for
men at Seventh North and First East.
The funds were derived from the Knight
Endowment Fund, and the building was
named Allen Hall in honor of R. Eugene
and Inez Knight Allen, a daughter of
Jesse Knight. Cost of the structure was
$75,000, and it was first occupied by
seventy-five men students on March 21,
1938. Dr. and Mrs. H. Val Hoyt were
the first couple to serve as dormitory
parents. The students were allowed to
work in the kitchen and the laundry
and to do janitorial work for credit
toward their room and board. Because
of a housing shortage for women during
World War II, Allen Hall was turned
over to women students. The LDS
Church Language Training Mission
moved into the building in 1962 until
the new Language Training Mission
complex north of campus would be
completed. The building was dedicated
with twenty-one other buildings at
ceremonies held on May 26, 1954.

129

(Top left)

Lights were installed during the 1930s
to illuminate the Education Building at
night.

(Top right)

Allen Hall proved so successful as a
student residence that immediate steps
were taken to construct another one —
Amanda Knight Hall, named in honor
of the wife of Jesse Knight. The
$100,000 residence for ninety women
was built from money obtained from the
Jesse Knight Endowment Fund and is
located at Eighth North and University
Avenue. Professor Effie Warnick was
the first "dorm mother" when the build-
ing was occupied in March, 1939. It

was operated as a cooperative unit
where the girls assisted in the house-
work and in the kitchen. It was taken
over later by the LDS Church's Lan-
guage Training Mission.

(Bottom)

On Founder's Day, 1937, headed by
Herald R. Clark and John C. Swensen,
a procession of classes wended its way
down the hill road for the groundbreak-
ing of the building to be called Allen
Hall.

130

(Top)

Faculty members who tried out the new
tennis courts in 1930 were Fred Dixon
(coach), left; Dr. P. A. Christensen
(English), Dr. Meredith O. Wilson
(history), J. Will Knight (Board of
Trustees), and Dr. T. Earl Pardoe
(speech and dramatic arts). The twelve
courts were built where the Eyring Sci-
ence Center now stands at the edge of
Raymond Grove.

(Center)

The Student Supply Association Book-
store was in the basement of the College
Building in the 1930s.

(Bottom)

Plans for construction of the Stadium
House were announced on February 5,
1936, and contributions came in im-
mediately from faculty, social units, the
community, and the class of 1929. Dr.
T. Earl Pardoe donated proceeds from
all school dramatic performances. A
pledge of ten hours of work was so-
licited from each student with a promise
that names of the workers would be
published in the Y News. The building
was constructed on the west side of the
stadium and served for athletic equip-
ment storage and for men's and wom-
en's dressing, locker, and shower rooms.

131

(Top)

This was Upper Campus between 1935
and 1939. West of the old playing field,
where the Joseph Smith Memorial
Building now stands, are the Heber J.
Grant Library, left; the Karl G. Maeser
Memorial Building, and the George H.
Brimhall Building.

(Center)

The BYU Press Department was or-
ganized in 1933 and set up in the base-
ment of the Maeser Building, with only
multilith and mimeograph services until
1941. Here Frank Haymore, press
manager, left, and Dr. Carlton Culmsee
of the Journalism Department check a
printing job. This was the forerunner
of the modern University Press which
is one of the finest printing establish-
ments in the Western United States.

(Bottom)

Groundbreaking ceremonies for the
Joseph Smith Memorial Building were
held on October 16, 1939. For this oc-
casion, the BYU Band stood in a circle,
while dignitaries sat on a temporary
platform and spectators stood in the
excavation. Beside them were 700,000
bricks from the old Lehi Sugar Factory
which were to be used as lining bricks
in the new structure. The bricks were
cleaned and some of them laid by the
same masons who had laid them in the
original factory fifty years earlier.

132

(Top)

The Joseph Smith Memorial Building,
an aesthetically appealing and remark-
ably versatile and practical building,
was started in October, 1939, and was
dedicated on Founder's Day, October 16,
1941. The architect was Fred L. Mark-
ham of Provo, whose design set the
style for scores of other buildings. He
explained that the Maeser Building had
been finished in white stone, the Grant
Building in glazed granite brick, and the
Brimhall Building in yellow brick. To
harmonize all of these Upper Campus
structures, he designed a building of
golden buff brick and precast white
stone. Located in its tower were chimes
that sounded the hour.

(Bottom)

Campus coordinating committee for the
Smith Building included Herald R.
Clark, dean of the College of Com-
merce; Wyley Sessions, director of the
Division of Religion; and William H.
Snell, chairman of Industrial Education.
Inspecting the work in the accompany-
ing photograph were committeemen and
students: Ernest Manwaring, left; John
Weenig, Bill Reeve, Twain Tippetts,
Dean Herald R. Clark, Director Wyley
Sessions, Architect Fred Markham, un-
identified, and Lavar Bateman.

133

(Top)

Commencement exercises, which had
been held during the 1930s in the
Provo Tabernacle, were changed to the
Joseph Smith Memorial Building after
its completion in 1941. In this photo-
graph of 1947, the procession, which
started at the Maeser Building, wends
its way around the Grant Library to the
Smith Building. The building also
alleviated the problems of local wards
by allowing the students to hold their
own Sunday School and Mutual Im-
provement Association on campus.

(Center)

The versatile Joseph Smith Memorial
Building served many purposes and
was the equivalent of a student union
building until the Ernest L. Wilkinson
Center was constructed in 1965. Here
the stage of the auditorium was being
used for a practice of a large chorus and
orchestra under the direction of Pro-
fessor Lawrence Sardoni.

(Bottom)

The ballroom and various other areas of
the Smith Building served as the regis-
tration center until completion of the
George Albert Smith Fieldhouse in
1951.

134

(Top)

Set up in one corner of the Smith
Cafeteria was the "Cougareat" (a play
on words from "Cougarette"), a counter
for quick snacks.

( Bottom )

The cafeteria was in the basement of the
Joseph Smith Memorial Building.

135

(Top)

This was a Leadership (Education)
Week assembly in the Joseph Smith
Auditorium during the 1950s. The cur-
tain was drawn, allowing the crowd to
extend into the ballroom, which was
later remodeled into offices. The audi-
torium now ends where the curtain was
located.

(Bottom)

The Joseph Smith Building Auditorium
also served as a theater before the con-
struction of the Harris Fine Arts Center
in 1965. This set was being prepared
for the production of "New Moon" in
November, 1952. Notice the organ grill
behind the scenery.

136

jM m

f i

- n

■1 A \ _ )

(Top)

The leadership of the University is rep-
resented in this 1943 Deans Council
meeting in the assembly room on the
upper floor of the Karl G. Maeser Me-
morial Building. Seated, left to right:

Thomas L. Martin (dean of Applied
Sciences), Christen Jensen (Graduate
School), President Franklin S. Harris,
A. C. Lambert (summer school), Amos
N. Merrill (Education), Nettie Smart
(dean of women), John E. Hayes

(registrar), Gerrit de Jong, Jr. (Fine
Arts), Thomas Broadbent (Extension
Division); standing: Herald R. Clark

(Commerce), Wesley P. Lloyd (dean of
students), Carl F. Eyring (Arts and
Sciences), Wyley Sessions (Division of
Religion), Kiefer B. Sauls (treasurer).

(Bottom)

Four great physicists who brought
renown to Brigham Young University
and who were recipients of numerous
national honors were Dr. Milton Mar-
shall, left, chairman of the Physics De-
partment, in whose honor the pendulum
in the Eyring Physical Science Building
was named; Dr. Harvey Fletcher, father
of stereophonic sound and first dean of
the College of Physical and Engineering
Sciences, for whom the Engineering
Laboratory Building was named; Dr.
Carl F. Eyring, dean of the College of
Arts and Sciences, for whom the Carl F.
Eyring Physical Sciences Center was
named; and Dr. Wayne B. Hales, chair-
man of the Physics Department, in
whose honor a lecture room in that
building was named.

137

(Top)

Two noted artists, B. F. Larsen, left, and
J. Roman Andrus (1940) examine art
holdings of the University in the "attic”
of the Education Building.

(Center)

Prof. Wilfred M. Poulson with psy-
chology students in the 1940s.

(Bottom)

Two scholars who joined the faculty in
1933 to add strength to the Division of
Religion were Dr. Russel B. Swensen,
left, and Dr. Sidney B. Sperry. This
photograph was taken in 1943; both
achieved emeritus status in 1973.

138

(Top)

J. J. Keeler, University organist, in this
1936 photograph practiced at the
organ in the College Hall Recital Room.

(Center)

Dr. Alonzo J. Morley conducts a breath-
ing test on a student in the speech and
hearing clinic in 1937. An extensive
facility later developed in the Harris
Fine Arts Center was named in honor
of Dr. Morley.

(Bottom left)

Dr. Vasco M. Tanner and friend in his
laboratory in the Brimhall Building.
The internationally noted entomologist
joined the BYU faculty in 1925 and was
editor of The Great Basin Naturalist for
thirty years.

(Bottom right)

LeRoy Robertson, a member of the
music faculty at BYU from 1924 to
1947, was a conductor and a noted
composer. His ''Trilogy,” composed in
1939, won the Reichhold Award of
$25,000 in 1947, and his "Book of
Mormon Oratorio,” premiered by the
Utah Symphony Orchestra and a large
chorus in 1953 at the Salt Lake Taber-
nacle and at BYU, won wide acclaim.

139

(Top left)

During the summer of 1938 President
Franklin S. Harris, left, was host to Dr.
Jean Piccard, famous French balloonist
and scientist, who was a lecturer in
BYU's summer school.

(Top right)

This domestic arts class on Lower Cam-
pus was taught by Vilate Elliot, standing.

(Center)

Selected from the ranks of the BYU
Band in 1938 was this brass choir.

(Bottom)

The 1936 Concert Band on the stage at
College Hall. The conductor was Pro-
fessor Robert Sauer, right.

140

' 1

l "i

tsif^r

’ ft ’ . tfY I

iKr «... M - f ■

ffli&.’V

(Top)

When BYU teams invaded Salt Lake
City for games with the University of
Utah in the 1930s, the BYU Band also
made its presence volubly known. In
1933 band members formed a circle in
the lobby of the Hotel Utah and sere-
naded the guests.

(Bottom)

The Provo Tabernacle was the scene of
many concerts by the BYU Symphony
Orchestra (shown here in 1938), other
BYU instrumental groups and choruses,
and visiting artists from throughout the
world.

141

(Top)

At a reunion on campus in the 1930s
was this class of 1916. Back row:
LeRoy Hafen, Fayette Stevens, Dilworth
Walker, Horace Monson, William T.
Tew, Henry Savage, Hugh W. Peterson,
Wayne B. Hales, E. Ray Gardner, Wal-
ter P. Cottam; front row: Mrs. Monson,
Mrs. Hafen, Alene Strong (Peterson),
Mrs. Gardner. The paper hats and
sashes were worn for identification —
and for fun.

(Bottom)

A pep group of pretty coeds on the steps
of the Women's Gymnasium in the
1930s.

142

(Top)

The Public Service Bureau provided
lectures and entertainment in response
to hundreds of requests each year for
programs. The Bureau was originated
in 1921 by student Ernest L. Wilkinson,
later University president, and was the
forerunner of the present Department of
University Programs, which sends talent
tours throughout the world. This staff
in 1935 included Albert Swensen, left;
Lorna Wentz, Ann Clayson, Elaine
DeGraff, and Webster Decker.

(Center)

These girls are dressed up prettily in ski
outfits for the 1935 Winter Carnival,
in spite of the lack of snow.

(Bottom)

Student editors of the 1939-40 publica-
tions were Robert Ruff, left, Banyan
chief, and Marvin Smith, Y News editor.

M 71

1 -

^ i H

Wflm*

^ mi

m r - 1

■ A

I*- Jfl 1

jg %

143

(Top)

Entrants in the 1939 "Campus Sweet-
heart" contest lined up in front of the
white gates for their official photo.
Venice Cottam was elected Campus
Sweetheart, with Marie Pyott and Ruth
White as attendants.

(Bottom)

Attending a senior class breakfast in
1939 at the president's home were
President Franklin S. Harris, left; Ben E.
Lewis, junior class president and 1939-
40 student body president-elect; Paul
Boyer, senior president; Farol Hassel,
senior vice-president; and Drew Leon-
ard, student body president.

144

(Top)

A fashion show in 1938 was impressive
for its neatness and femininity. The
girls modeled clothing they had made in
a clothing and textiles class.

(Bottom)

A tense scene from the gripping drama
The Bad Man in 1936 was portrayed
here in the College Hall production by
Ralph Britsch, left; Fern Smoot, W.
Rogers, L. Terry, Glenn Potter, Dr.
Alonzo Morley (in wheelchair), J.
Poulsen, E. Bird, and F. Collette.

145

(Top)

Until the Joseph Smith Memorial Build-
ing was constructed in 1941, com-
mencement exercises were held in the
Provo Tabernacle. The procession
formed at the Education Building and
marched south on University Avenue to
the Tabernacle, a distance of six blocks.
At the head of this academic procession
at the white gates in 1934 were Presi-
dent Franklin S. Harris, left; President
Anthony W. Ivins, counselor in the
First Presidency; President Heber J.
Grant, Elders David O. McKay, Reed
Smoot, and John A. Widtsoe (apostles),
Stephen Chipman and Lafayette Hol-
brook of the Board of Trustees, and
Sylvester Q. Cannon of the Presiding
Bishopric (tall man in hat).

(Bottom)

The commencement procession entered
and left by these doors of the Tabernacle.

146

'If-

(Top)

The 1938 graduating class and their
families and friends crowded the Provo
Tabernacle.

(Bottom)

At a commencement in the Provo
Tabernacle, President Heber J. Grant
hands out diplomas. At his right are
President Franklin S. Harris and Elder
Reed Smoot; at his left, Franklin L.
West, commissioner of education, and
Elder Stephen L Richards. Dean Gerrit
de Jong of the College of Fine Arts is
directing traffic. The music conductor
near the organ console is Franklin
Madsen.

147

(Top)

Social unit members dressed in tuxedos
for their formal dinner meetings in the
Hotel Roberts dining room. Social units
were approved in 1927; but, unlike
Greek-letter fraternities and sororities,
all students were invited to join, and the
units were sponsored by faculty mem-
bers. Their names were unlike anything
on any other campus. In 1940 social
units for men were the Brigadiers, the
Brickers, the Tausigs, the Trojans, the
Val Hyrics, and the Vikings. Units for
women were the Alta Mitras, the Cesta
Ties, the Em Anons, the Fidelas, the
Thalians, the Geferans, the LaVadis,
Les Cicilliennes, the Nautilus, the O.S.
Travatas, the Ta Lentas, the Val Norns,
and the Loha-Os. In addition, there
were numerous hobby clubs, geographic
clubs, honor societies, service units, and
religious groups, such as the Delta Phis
(returned missionaries), the YXLMs
(returned lady missionaries), and the
Lambda Delta Sigmas (LDS) clubs. The

clubs competed in setting fashion trends,
attaining student offices, and garnering
trophies in all kinds of events, such as
Winter Carnival and Homecoming
parades.

( Bottom )

Until 1950 BYU owned and operated

considerable farm property on and ad-
jacent to campus. This was harvest
time in 1938 in an apple orchard west
of the present Richards Building site.
Karl Miller of the Physical Plant De-
partment, center, was in charge. Some
of the produce was turned over to needy
students during depression days.

148

(Top)

All activities during the Great Depres-
sion were simplified, including this
homecoming parade in downtown Provo
in 1934. The Banyan for 1932 was
merely a scrapbook, with a few pictures
of buildings printed in the front and the
rest of the pages left for the owner to
insert his own clippings and sentiments.
There were also cuts in salaries and
elimination of some events. But, un-
like most universities, BYU enjoyed an
increase in enrollment, which reached
2,375 in 1939.

(Bottom)

This was the 1936 Brigadier social unit's
semi-formal dance, with girls in evening
dresses and men in Sunday best.

149

(Top)

Dr. George H. Hansen (geology) and
Ermalita Idle proudly display the Brig-
ham Young banner and a copy of the
1939 Banyan which were sent to ac-
company the Byrd Antarctic Expedition.
The 1940 Banyan stated that the Banyan
was a valued asset to the library of "lit-
tle America," Admiral Byrd's camp in
the Antarctic.

(Center)

Dr. Leona Holbrook, right, who became
head of the Women's Physical Educa-
tion Department in 1937 and later one
of the top figures in the nation in that
field, talks with some of her students on
the mezzanine of the Women's Gym-
nasium. She served at BYU a total of
thirty-seven years, retiring in 1974.
Numerous developments were brought
about in physical education during her
leadership, and in 1940 she brought the
big Posture Parade (which was held in
connection with the annual Invitational
Track Meet and Relay Carnival) to its
all-time peak. She was instrumental in
the construction of the George Albert
Smith Fieldhouse and the Stephen L
Richards Building. Recognized inter-
nationally, she served as president of
the American Association for Health,
Physical Education and Recreation and
president of the National Association
of Physical Education of College Wom-
en and was U.S. representative to the
International Congress for Health,
Physical Education, and Recreation,
giving advisory service in several coun-
tries. She holds the highest awards
these organizations can confer.

(Bottom)

The birthday of the University was ob-
served as "Founder's Day" until 1930,
when the name "Homecoming" was
applied. The event included downtown
parades and football games, but the
election of a Homecoming queen did
not become vogue until 1937, when the
first queen, Bonna Ashby (Brinton) was
chosen.

150

(Top)

In 1937 a favorite meeting place for
students was in the hall of the Karl G.
Maeser Memorial Building beneath the
bust of Brigham Young. Among these
students was James C. Fletcher, left,
who later served as president of the
University of Utah from 1964 to 1971
and was appointed in that year as ad-
ministrator of the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration (NASA).

(Bottom)

The Sophomore Loan Fund Ball, which
began before 1923 and continued
through the 1950s, was designed to
raise money for assistance to needy
students. In this photograph (about
1934), Afton Hansen, left, and Stewart
Grow come to the Date Bureau of the
Sophomore Loan Fund Ball to take ad-
vantage of its services.

151

(Top)

The first BYU Press Club (1935) was
made up of students in journalism, a
department which had just been started
by Dr. Harrison R. Merrill. Members
included, front row, left to right: Mar-
jorie Seegmiller, unidentified, Francis
Foster, John Domina (behind Foster),
Gilbert Chatwin, unidentified; second
row: Stewart Grow, Harold Christen-
sen, Ermel Morton, Forace Green, un-
identified; third row: Dr. Carlton

Culmsee (faculty), Reese Faucette, John
Talmage, Harrison R. Merrill (faculty),
unidentified.

(Bottom)

An exciting annual event in October
during the 1940s was the "Smokeless
Smoker," a stag affair for the men stu-
dents and faculty, which included a
program of boxing, wrestling, and some
variety numbers. It was held in the
Men's Gymnasium on the top floor of
the Training Building, while the women
students at the same time held a Jam-
boree in the Women's Gymnasium,
consisting of games, folk dancing, and
community singing. Each fan at the
Smoker usually received a small treat,
such as a candy sucker or an apple. The
1940 card listed a battle royal with two
freshmen, two sophomores, and a senior
all in the ring. There was also a blind-
fold battle royal and individual boxing
and wrestling matches of three rounds
each (usually billed as "grudge
matches"). Entertainment that year
included community singing, led by
Ralph Britsch of the English Depart-
ment, a fencing demonstration, and a
champion jitterbug performance.

152

• • —

* M |

* .>■ V

t it

4 t

Flit I

(Top left)

Principals in a 1940 production of a
traditional Christmas drama. Family
Portrait, a play about the family of
Jesus, were Mrs. Odessa L. Cullimore,
left; Mrs. Kathryn Pardoe, and Mrs.
Arta Ballif. The play was presented in
College Hall each year for many years
by the BYU actors.

(Top right)

Thirty years later, in October, 1974, the
drama Family Portrait was revived and
presented in honor of Mrs. Kathryn
Pardoe, the veteran BYU drama teacher,
in the Pardoe Drama Theater. Playing
the role of Mary was Mrs. Georgia Faux,
daughter of Mrs. Odessa Cullimore,
who took the part three decades earlier.
In the 1974 version, the actors wore
peasant costume to make the production
more universal.

(Center)

With LeRoy Robertson conducting, the
BYU orchestra performed in the Provo
Tabernacle on May 3, 1939, with E.
Robert Schmitz, a renowned French
pianist and associate of composer
Claude Debussy, as soloist. He played
the Beethoven Concerto No. 1, a group
of Debussy compositions, and the Liszt
Concerto in E flat.

( Bottom )

The 1937 Junior Prom committee in-
cluded, front row, left to right: Marian
Wilson, Roslyn Eddington, Maurine
Clark; middle row: Dean A. Peterson,
Maurine Murdock Hughes, Ralph
Kelley; top row: Dean Van Wagenen,
George Killian.

153

(Top)

With the revival of football in 1920
came also renewed enthusiasm. Fol-
lowed by the student body, the football
team marched down University Avenue
to board a train for a game at Logan.
Photo courtesy of Lynn Wakefield.

(Bottom)

After a twenty-year ban on football, the
sport was brought back to Brigham
Young University on an intramural
basis in 1919, and intercollegiate games
were resumed in 1920. This scruffy
crew, posing in front of the white gates
on lower campus, was the 1920 BY High
School team.

154

(Top)

The football team boarded a car of the
interurban railroad at a station located
at First West and Center streets, where
the downtown J. C. Penney store now
stands. A huge crowd of supporters
cheered their departure. Note that
every man is wearing a suit and a hat.
Pep rallies in those days were called
"vodies." Photo courtesy of Lynn
Wakefield.

( Bottom )

For the first few years after the revival
of football at BYU, many games were
played at the old Timp Park, just south
of the present Provo power plant. There
were no grandstands, and automobiles
and spectators lined up along the side-
lines. Players suited up at the Men's
Gymnasium in the Training Building
and walked to Timp Park. Later, foot-
ball was moved to Upper Campus at the
old grandstand, which, in the absence of
football, had been used primarily as a
track.

155

Eiior ’-ji

0mSk ' - ^ pH

mr j a

=■» f i 9?

1 v

rasamd w|

I jPL vrt' / 1

m & ~^yi

(Top)

Knute Rockne, famous coach of Notre
Dame, was teacher at the first coaching
school in Utah (instituted by Eugene L.
Roberts [far left]) during the summer
of 1923. Rockne is in the center, with
Alvin Twitchell, BYU coach, at his right
and Fred (Buck) Dixon, BYU coach, at
his left.

(Center)

The play was rough in this football
game with Montana University in 1925.
BYU was admitted to the Rocky Moun-
tain Conference in 1921 and had its first
winning year in 1929, with a record of
five wins and three losses. This game
was played on the field near the old
grandstand on Upper Campus.

(Bottom)

These were the Cougars in 1924 as they
posed on the rocky old playing field
near the grandstand where the Joseph
Smith Building now stands. Football
games were moved to the new hillside
stadium in 1928. Team members were,
front row, left to right: unidentified,
Monty Groesbeck, Silky Knudsen, Carl
Harris, Pete Mendenhall, Lovell Hib-
bert, Wayne Smart, unidentified, un-
identified, Paul Packard; standing: Don
Corbett, unidentified, Harlow Jones,
Rip Gledhill, Bob Howard, Fred Hinck-
ley, Hunter Manson, Golden Romney,
George K. Lewis, Tars Hullinger, and
Redd Merkley.

156

an exhibition basis for thousands of
athletes and spectators. Probably the
largest in the nation, the meet involved
over 4,000 participants before World
War II. Today the event is called the
Annual Invitational Track and Field
Meet (1975 was the 62nd annual) and is
limited to high schools. It includes
tennis and golf competition in addition
to track, along with the girls' feature.
Pep Clubs on Review.

(Top)

In 1924 Wilma Jeppsen, head of the
Women's Physical Education Depart-
ment, suggested the addition of a Pos-
ture Parade for high school girls as a
part of the annual Invitational Track
and Field Meet, which had been con-
ducted at BYU since 1911. The proposal
was approved, and the first girls' march-
ing units appeared that year. The team
in the accompanying photograph posed
on the track of the old playing field on
Upper Campus near Raymond Grove.

( Bottom )

This was a typical finish of the 100-yard
dash in the Invitational Track and Field
Meet and Relay Carnival (about 1940)

in the old stadium. The meet had its
origin in 1911 when Coach Eugene L.
Roberts sent letters inviting a number
of nearby high schools to participate in
an 880-yard relay race at the annual
spring interclass track and field meet on
campus. He conceived the idea after
witnessing several big track meets at
Madison Square Garden in New York
and attending the annual Penn Relays.

Each year the list of participating
high schools and junior colleges grew
until it included most of the schools in
the Intermountain West. The addition
of the Posture Parade in 1924 added
grace and beauty. In 1935 special
events were added, and famous track
and field stars performed at the meet on

157

1 E

r %

r ** %

^ (1

aik. i IfS 'V ;W t

(Top)

Typical of Posture Parades is this scene
from the 1939 event. By that time the
girls had discarded the bloomers for
shorts, and all teams wore identical
blouses, shorts, and caps, with emphasis
on posture and marching skill. Skirts
were adopted in 1940, but in 1947 the
girls were back in shorts. The event
reached its peak in 1940 under Leona
Holbrook, who introduced merit ratings
rather than "winners." The Posture
Parade was abandoned during World
War II, but thereafter it was held until
1949, when it was discontinued for five
years. In 1955 it was replaced by Pep
Clubs on Review, which continues to
the present time. The new emphasis is
on dancing skill and spectacular march-
ing maneuvers in individual unit uni-
forms. The groups also participate in
mass activities.

(Bottom)

After construction of the stadium in
1928, the Invitational Track and Field
Meet and the Posture Parade moved to
the stadium. By 1939 eighteen teams
were participating, including nearly a
thousand girls. Of interest in this

photograph are the Stadium House on
the west side of the field (constructed in
1936); the apple orchard, where the
practice field and the fieldhouse are now
located; and the open spaces beyond,

where Provo High School and com-
mercial establishments now stand. This
area of the field and the Stadium House
is now occupied by the Richards
Building.

158

(Top)

Brigham Young University won the
Rocky Mountain Conference basketball
championship in 1924. Team members
were, left to right, front row: Paul

Packard, Orin Howard, Golden Romney,
Grant Ingersoll, Fred Dixon, and Reed
Stewart; second row: Dunn Taylor,

Thomas G. Griggs, Kenneth Anderson,
Wesley Lloyd, Clarence Knudsen, Fred
Richards; back row: E. L. Roberts, ath-
letic director; Coach Alvin Twitchell;
and George A. Fix, manager. Coach
Twitchell's basketball teams (1921-25)
won forty-four games and lost twenty.

(Center)

The coaching staff in 1931 included
Fred "Buck" Dixon, left, an all-time
great who won four letters each in foot-
ball, basketball, and tennis (1923-26),
and who joined the staff in 1928 as
assistant football and basketball coach
and later was tennis and golf coach for
many years; the colorful and dynamic
George Ottinger (Ott) Romney, head
football, basketball, and track coach,
1928-36; Weldon Monson, assistant
football coach and BY High School
basketball coach; and Charles J. Hart,
football coach from 1925 to 1927, chair-
man of the Timpanogos Hike (1928-61),
chairman of the Physical Education De-
partment, and director of the Invita-
tional Track Meet and Relay Carnival
(1928-48).

(Bottom)

Assisted by wrestling coach Aubert
Coty, Coach Ott Romney hands out
equipment to BYU athletes in the Men's
Gymnasium: Hap Nisonger, unidenti-
fied, Mack Warner, Pete Wilson, un-
identified.

159

(Top)

Ready to board the bus for a game trip
was this 1928 BYU basketball team:
Coach G. Ott Romney, left; President
Franklin S. Harris, unidentified, Owen
West, Mark Ballif, Paul Thorn, George
Cooper, Russell Magleby, Donald
Dixon, Eldon Brinley, Les Wright,
Bernard Walker, Clarence Skousen,
Assistant Coach Fred Dixon, and
Trainer Tobe Raile.

(Center)

Russ Parsons presents the 1933 basket-
ball championship trophy to Coach Ott
Romney. The players were, first row,
left to right: El wood Romney, BYU's
first all-American basketball player;
Malcolm LeSeuer, Byron Nelson, Floyd
Millet, J. Whitman; second row: Joe
Johnson, George Gurley, Hugh Cannon,
Jim Hunter, Emerson McOmber, and
Wilburn Ball. Coach Romney's basket-
ball teams, 1928-35, had a win-loss
record of 138-81. His football teams
won 42, lost 31, and tied 5. In 1932 his
football team had a record of 8 wins and
1 loss, and his track teams were cham-
pions in 1934, 1935, and 1936.

(Bottom)

Head Coach Ott Romney (1928-36) did
not limit his campus activities to ath-
letics. Here he plays a heavy dramatic
role in "Counselor at Law," which was
produced on the stage of the old College
Hall.

160

(Top)

BYU Head Coach Ott Romney (1928-
36) was honored at a farewell dinner in
the Hotel Roberts sponsored by the
Provo Chamber of Commerce. Here he
says his goodbyes. On the table in front
of him is the suitcase presented to him
as a gift. At his right are President
Franklin S. Harris (white hair) and
George Ballif (glasses), former student
body president who gave the main
address.

( Center )

Head football coach Eddie Kimball, left,
outlines 1941 strategy for assistant
coaches Wayne Soffe and Wayne Reeve.

(Bottom)

Dr. Edwin R. Kimball, left, a BYU grad-
uate of 1926, became BYU line coach in
1936 and head football and basketball
coach in 1937, also assuming duties as
director of athletics. The next year BYU
joined the Mountain States Athletic
Conference (the "Big Seven"), which
included the universities of Colorado,
Colorado State, Utah, Utah State, Den-
ver, Wyoming, and BYU. Eddie Kim-
ball rolled up a football record of 34
wins, 32 losses, and 8 ties, giving up
coaching in 1948 to become athletic di-
rector full time. Floyd Millet, right,
star on Ott Romney's football and bas-
ketball teams, became assistant football
coach to Eddie Kimball and was head
coach of all sports in 1942-43. The
basketball team that year won 17 and
lost 3 and played in a Madison Square
Garden, New York, tournament. Mil-
let's 1942 football team was the first to
beat the University of Utah's team.
Coach Millet later served as athletic
director from 1963 to 1970.

161

(Top)

Eddie Kimball's football teams were
colorful and visible. This formidable
line in 1937 included Merrill Watters,
left; Hafen Leavitt, Vaughn Lloyd (all-
American), Chad Beckstead, Gerald
Gillespie, Forrest Bird, and Wayne
Soffe. In its best season to that time
BYU finished third in a twelve-team
league.

(Bottom)

Head Coach Edwin R. Kimball, second
row left, and assistant Coach Floyd
Millet, second row right, with the 1938-
39 basketball team. Eddie Kimball's
teams, 1936-41, won 56 games and lost
48. Coach Millet took over as head
basketball coach, 1942-49, winning 102
and losing 69. He was also track coach.
Millet led the Cougars to the Mountain
States Athletic Conference title in 1948.

162

(Top)

A wiry little French-Canadian, Aubert
Coty, produced championship wrestling
teams in the 1930s. He poses here with
the 1936 team: Iliff Jeffrey, left; Her-
man Rowley, Ernest Dean, James Lam-
bert, Carlisle Lambert, Merrill Croft,
Golden Taylor, Albert Clark, and Coach
Coty.

(Bottom)

Intercollegiate basketball games were
played in the Women's Gymnasium and
in the Springville High School Gym-
nasium until construction of the George
Albert Smith Fieldhouse in 1951. This
is a photograph of a game with the Uni-
versity of Utah in 1937.

163

(Top left)

Interclass sports competition flourished
during the 1930s, and typical of the
competitors was this junior class wom-
en's team that won the basketball cham-
pionship in 1938. From top: Wanda
Andrus, Mary Pintar, Lorean Lewis,
Beth Soffe, Thora Carlson, and Gretta
Carlson, who was also Winter Carnival
Queen.

(Top right)

The tennis team in 1938, photographed
on the upper campus courts at about
where the Eyring Science Center now
stands, included: Grant Hansen, left;

Bill Pardoe, Gordon Snow, Grant Holt,
Malcolm Booth, Howard Ballard, Coach
Fred Dixon, and Charles Fletcher.

(Bottom)

Brigham Young University's first swim-
ming team, which entered competition
in 1921-22, included Briant Decker, left;
Hamilton Calder, T. William Harrison,
Aldus Markham, and Harold Bentley.
The earliest teams trained in the pool of
the Provo High School when the school
was located on Third West between
Center and First South streets. Because
of burdensome expense, Provo High
School closed the pool after very few
years of operation. BYU did not have
its own facility until construction in
1965 of the Richards Building with its
natatorium of three pools.

164

(Top)

The BYU women's swimming team in
the old Provo High School pool in the
1920s.

(Bottom)

World War II struck Brigham Young
University with tremendous impact as
students and faculty left the academic
scene to serve in the armed forces or in
war-related industries. Enrollment
dropped from 2,375 in 1939-40 to only
884 in 1943-44. Only a skeleton faculty
remained. Many events, such as Lead-

ership Week, the Invitational Track
Meet and Relay Carnival, the Journal-
ism Conference, the Intermountain
Commercial Contest, and the Speech
and Drama Festival, all were cancelled.
Farewell assemblies were held often for
those who had been called. Also, on
July 1, 1942, about 300 U.S. Army pri-
vates came on campus for the Army

Specialized Training Program conducted
by BYU under Army supervision. It
was a rigorous schedule in chemistry,
physics, mathematics, English, history,
geography, and physical education — a
course needed in a war of technology.
Joseph K. Nicholes supervised the pro-
gram, which lasted three twelve-week
terms.

165

(Top)

Professor Joseph K. Nicholes, in charge
of the Army Specialized Training Pro-
gram on campus during World War II,
greets soldiers near the Stadium House.

(Center)

Soldiers in the Army Specialized Train-
ing Program on BYU campus during
World War II formed chow line outside
the Joseph Smith Building cafeteria.

(Bottom)

Because of the lack of housing during
World War II, the Provo Third LDS
Ward Recreation Hall (Taylor Hall)
was converted into a barracks for the
Army Specialized Training Unit soldiers
attached to the BYU program.

166

(Top)

Troops of the Army Specialized Train-
ing Program on BYU campus during
World War II marched down “lovers'
lane" on the south slope of campus as
they left for field duty.

(Bottom)

The armed services enlisted BYU men
right off the gridiron. Here taking the
oath as Marines are ten football players:
Glen Oliverson, left; Pete Prusse, Ed
Morris, Jean Fox, Ed Ure, Wes Bowers,
Bill Dixey, Chat Chatterton, Russell
Boyce, and Bob Liday.

167

(Top left)

Coach Edwin R. (Eddie) Kimball and
Coach Wayne Soffe, both Naval officers,
turned over their duties to Coach Floyd
Millett (later athletic director) as they
prepared to leave for military service in
1942. Coach Millett's football team had
a 2-5 win-loss record that year, but that
included a victory over the University of
Utah, the first ever accomplished by a
BYU football team.

(Top right)

Dr. Wayne B. Hales of the Physics De-
partment was in charge of Civilian Pilot
Training as an aid to the war prepara-
tion. In this 1943 photograph he is
ready to launch a weather balloon dur-
ing instruction of civilian pilot trainees.
The course was held at the Provo and
Spanish Fork airports and included 240
hours of ground school and thirty-five
hours of flight training for the forty-five
students involved. Dr. Hales and Dr.
Milton Marshall also taught thirty
students in radio engineering.

(Center)

Dr. Wayne B. Hales, far right, at the
Provo Airport. Far left is Merrill
Christopherson, local pilot and airport
manager, who helped in the program.

(Bottom)

Dr. Carlton Culmsee, left, who was di-
rector of the Extension Division and
head of the Journalism Department,
turned over his Extension duties and
gave final instructions to Thomas L.
Broadbent before leaving for Naval duty
in 1943.

168

(Top left)

Before and during World War II, many
students hauled their trailers into Ray-
mond Grove on the east side of BYU
campus and set up housekeeping.

(Top right)

Although student enrollment dropped
from 2,375 in 1939-40 to only 884 in
the 1943-44 war years, housing became
scarce because of the influx of workers
and their families to the new war in-
dustries in Utah County. In view of the
shortage, the administration ordered the
remodeling of Room D in the Education
Building along with residences in the
area for housing students, especially
women students. George H. Hansen,
Thomas L. Martin, A. C. Lambert, Lynn
Hayward, Alonzo J. Morley, and other

faculty members assisted in making the
changes. In the accompanying photo-
graph Dr. George Hansen (geology),
left, and Dean A. C. Lambert (summer
school) were constructing rooms for
student housing in the Education
Building.

(Bottom)

Girls of the BYU campus chapter of
Lambda Delta Sigma (a Latter-day Saint
student society) busily worked on sew-
ing for the Red Cross during World War
II. The Y News featured "Fighting Sons
of Brigham," a column with information
about the locations and activities of stu-
dents in the service. Dr. T. Earl Pardoe
kept BYU servicemen informed of
campus events by a regular newsletter.

169

Names of the 117 BYU men who gave
their lives in World War II are mounted
in eternal honor on a huge bronze
plaque in Memorial Hall of the Ernest
L. Wilkinson Center.

WORLD WAR n

a a//, Old. Stanley carl

ABBOTT. .LANE .MYRON
ADAIR. JAY POSS
ATWOOD. DALE F
BEAN. WILLIS F.

BIRD. GENE EMMETT
BRAITHWAITE. BURKE T
BROBERG. CRAIG NELSON
BROWN. CLYDE GLEN
BROWN. HUGH CARD
BURNSIDE. DON N.
CALLAHAN. KENNETH E.
CAMPBELL. CHARLES R.
CASE. KEITH C.

CHATWIN. JAMES E
CHRISTENSEN. DONALD N.
CHRISTENSEN. DON ALMA
CHRISTENSEN. ALLEN P.
COLLARD. ELLIS M.

COX. DAVID LA R RAIN. JR.
CRANMER. ROBERT A.
DAVIES. ARTHUR C.
DAVIS. KEITH GILES
DUGGAN. ROBERT E.
DUNFORD. PAUL OLIVER
FOX. JOHN WELDON
FRANCIS. MAUN E.
GALBRAITH. WILLIAM LYLE
GARDNER. DAVID BOYD
GOWERS. JAY E.
HALTERMAN. AUSTIN
HALVERSON. MAX B.
HAND. ROLAND J.
HANSEN. GRANT N.
HARRIS. JED E.

HARRIS NORMAN
HART. SLYVESTER E.
HARVEY. RICHARD P.
HAWS. GILBERT SMITH
HECKER. JAMES C.

HERMANSEN. GLEN R
HODSON. ROBERT
HUFF. MARVIN S.

HUISH. BILLY HUGO
HUNTINGTON. ROYAL C
JANSON. LAWRENCE A.
JOHNSON. DONALD U
JOHNSON. FRED D.
Johnson, h. Maclean
JONES. OUE D.

KILLPACK. REECE
KIMBALL. VAUGHN
KING. RALPH V
KNAPHUS. NED
\ K'NIGHT. DALE C.

; LAKE. GEORGE M.

I LARSEN. CORWIN T.

* LARSEN. JAY REED
- LAW RONDO
| LOTH. LOREN
LUNDY. WAYNE I.
MacFARLANE. HUBERT W
MADSEN. ALLEN E.

!j MALONEY. JAY PAUL
If McBRIDE. WILLIAM J.
McPHIE. DONALD A.
MENDENHALL. DEAN
MILLER. BERT H.

MILNER. LEON ROSS
. . OWENS. ROBERT L.

PETERBORG. JOHN DELILE
“2 PETERSON. CLAIR L.
PETERSON. JOHN R.
PREECE. LELAND
RASMUSSEN. CANNON
___ REHOR. WILLIAM G.

REX. DALE B.
f RICE. SARGENT GRANT
RICHINS. OTHELLO D.

. ROPER. HUGH RAWLIN

RUST GEORGE NELSON
SECOR. ARTHUR E
SEELEY. MAX M.

SHARP IVAN PAUL
SHELLEY. DAVID EDWARD
SIMMONS. GERALD L
SKOUSEN. MURR
SMITH. HEBER JOSEPH
SMITH. PAUL HONE
SMITH. VICTOR E
SMITH. WENDELL OLSEN
SNOW. CLAUDE S.

SNOW. RAY B.

SORENSEN. W SAM
’ SPENCER. FARLEN L.

SPILLMAN. EARL
1 STRINGHAM. IRVING RAY
\ SUNDAHL. JOHN C.
i SWENSON. LYMAN K.

£ THOMAS. HARRY
1 TURLEY. GRANT
1 VANCE. DAVID H.

VEST. WILLIAM LEROY
___ WARDLE. LELAND TAYLOR
WHITE. CHARLES WILLIAM
I WHITE. JOHN G.

B WHITE. JOHN S.

WHITE. LEWIS ELMER
■j WHITE. SAMUEL MAX
1 WILL. WALLACE K.
H WILLIAMS. JAMES J.

WILLIAMS. WALDON
WILSON. GENE L.
WILSON. RONALD
WOOLLEY CLOYD
WRIGHT ROBERT S.
YOUNG. JAMES WARREN

170

ATime of
Transition
1945-1949

Almost simultaneously with the end of
World War II, a new president came to
the helm of Brigham Young University
to guide it through four years of
transition — Howard Stevenson Mc-
Donald.

Born in Holladay, Utah, on July 18,
1894, the son of Francis and Rosella
Stevenson McDonald, he attended
Holladay schools and graduated from
Granite High School. Upon completion
of a two-year mission for the Church in
the Eastern States Mission, he married

Ella Gibbs on September 26, 1917.
They became parents of two daughters,
Ruth (M. Boyer) and Melba (M. Orgill).

During World War I he was stationed
in France with the 163rd Artillery
Brigade from Utah.

Continuing his education, he received
his Bachelor of Science degree from the
Utah State Agricultural College in 1921
and remained as an instructor in mathe-
matics until 1924. He then moved to
California, where he taught in the San
Francisco public schools. He also con-
tinued his studies, receiving the Master
of Arts degree from the University of
California in 1925. A number of years
later he received his Doctor of Educa-
tion degree from the same institution,
and in 1952 he received a Doctor of
Humanities degree, also from the Uni-
versity of California.

In 1928 Dr. McDonald was appointed
vice-principal and dean of boys at Bal-
boa High School in San Francisco, and
in 1934 he became director of teaching
personnel in the San Francisco public
schools. He was appointed deputy
superintendent of San Francisco public
schools in 1935, holding this office until
July 1, 1944, when he returned to Salt
Lake City.

Throughout this period he served in
various Church positions, finally that of
president of the East Bay San Francisco
Stake. He also served as one of the five
presidents of the San Francisco Area
Council of the Boy Scouts of America,
and upon his return to Salt Lake he
became a member of the governing
board of the Salt Lake Council of Boy
Scouts.

As superintendent of Salt Lake City
public schools from 1944 to 1945, he
clearly demonstrated not only his skill
as an administrator but his zeal as a
formidable fighter for causes he es-
poused. Then, on November 14, 1945,
he was inaugurated as president of
Brigham Young University. During his
administration the school experienced a
major expansion, growing much more
rapidly than many other universities of
the country. To keep pace with this
growth, he took steps to increase the

172

faculty and to reorganize the Graduate
School and the Student Counseling
Service. He also emphasized the spiri-
tual ideals of the University and en-
deavored to raise academic standards.

When President Harris took office,
enrollment was a little over 1,500 stu-
dents, but by the fall of 1945 this had
jumped to over 2,700 as the servicemen
returned. By 1947-48 the enrollment
had reached 5,400, placing tremendous
pressure on housing, classrooms, and
faculty.

Although it was a time of stress,
President McDonald urged full speed
ahead toward the creation of a greater
university, including the construction of
science, fine arts, and union buildings,
more dormitories, and a library addi-
tion. Only the science building and
dormitories became a reality during his
administration. The Carl F. Eyring
Physical Science Center was approved
in 1946, but because of postwar infla-
tion, it did not get under way until 1948.
This single building practically doubled
the building space on campus.

Because of the enlarged postwar stu-
dent body, housing facilities were over-
taxed and had to be expanded. Through
the Federal Works Program, temporary
housing, known as Wymount Village,
was constructed in 1946 for 200 married
veterans and 350 single veterans by
moving forty-five war surplus, tem-
porary buildings from the Ogden ar-
senal. A number of temporary build-
ings were also provided at this time for
offices and classrooms. In 1948 work
was completed on a women's dormitory,
Knight-Mangum Hall, and an adjoining
temporary women's dormitory was
remodeled into what is now Social Hall.

In a major change. President Mc-
Donald inaugurated Student Personnel
Services, with Dean of Students Wesley
P. Lloyd in charge. This area supervised
such functions as admissions, athletics,
attendance and scholarship, awards,
orientation, health services, housing,
publication, and others, freeing faculty
committees for scholarly work.

President McDonald left on October
30, 1949, to accept the position of

president of Los Angeles City College
and Los Angeles State College of Ap-
plied Arts and Sciences. On May 7,
1957, the Howard S. McDonald Stu-
dent Health Center was dedicated and
named in his honor.

Between the resignation of President
McDonald and the arrival of President
Ernest L. Wilkinson in February, 1951,
Dr. Christen Jensen, veteran faculty
member and dean of the Graduate
School, served as acting president.

Elder Joseph F. Merrill, apostle, spoke
at commencement exercises in the
Joseph Smith Building during the Mc-
Donald administration. On the stand
also were President Howard S. Mc-
Donald, left. President David O. McKay,
and Dr. George H. Hansen, Geology
Department chairman and one-time
acting dean of Arts and Sciences.

173

(Top left)

Participating in commencement exer-
cises in the 1940s were Church Presi-
dent George Albert Smith, left, BYU
President Howard S. McDonald, and
former BYU President Franklin S. Har-
ris, at the podium.

(Top right)

After occupying his office in the Maeser
Building in November 1945, President
Howard S. McDonald greets students.
They are Betty Galbraith of Richland,
Washington, left; Vernal Jensen, Ogden,
Utah; and Wanda McMurray, Oakley,
Idaho.

( Bottom )

The great flood of war veterans return-
ing as students under the G.I. Bill after
World War II taxed every facility of the
University: housing, classroom, faculty,
and services. Grappling with the prob-
lem in this photo were Registrar John E.
Hayes, left; Kiefer B. Sauls, treasurer;
and Benjamin F. Cummings, chairman
of the housing committee.

174

(Top)

An innovation inaugurated by President
McDonald in 1946 was a new Counsel-
ing Service to provide better assessment
of students' abilities, aptitudes, and
interests for the benefit of both faculty
and students. Dr. Antone K. Romney,
center, in charge of the Counseling Ser-
vice (later dean of students and dean of
the College of Education); Dr. Mark K.
Allen, left, psychometrist (later chair-
man of Psychology Department); and
Dr. Harold Glen Clark, right, a coun-
selor (later dean of Continuing Edu-
cation).

(Center)

President Howard S. McDonald, right,
confers with University of Utah Presi-
dent A. Ray Olpin, who was student
body president at BYU in 1921-22.

(Bottom)

A major change instituted by President
Howard S. McDonald was the organi-
zation of Student Personnel Services,
with Dean of Students Wesley P. Lloyd,
right, in charge. Dr. Lloyd was ap-
pointed by President Franklin S. Harris
as the first dean of students and served
in that position from 1937 to 1960,
then as dean of the Graduate School
from 1960 to 1969. In this photograph.
President McDonald and Dean Lloyd
were discussing the campus plan.
President McDonald had proposed a
fieldhouse as early as 1946, and the men
here are pointing to the area where the
fieldhouse was later built.

175

(Top)

This was Brigham Young University
Upper Campus when President Howard
S. McDonald assumed office in 1945.
There were the Maeser, Grant, Brim-
hall, and Smith Buildings, with the
stadium and Stadium House beyond.
The Carl F. Eyring Physical Science
Center was built at the location of the
tennis courts on the right side of this
photograph. Some of the temporary
war surplus buildings are visible.

(Bottom)

When a new Aeolian-Skinner organ was
installed in the Salt Lake Tabernacle in
1948, the older Austin organ was re-
moved, transported to Provo, and in-
stalled in the Joseph Smith Memorial
Building auditorium. Gathered around
the console upon completion of the work
were, front row, left to right: J. J.

Keeler, University organist; Alexander

Schreiner, Tabernacle organist; Frank
W. Asper, Tabernacle organist; back
row: Roy Darley, Tabernacle organist;

Dr. Gerrit de Jong, Jr., dean of the BYU
College of Fine Arts; and BYU President
Howard S. McDonald.

176

■■LtTt IlzS ■'

^,,, r-rTT- TTTqz i: T n 11,8 J| 1

(Top)

In 1946 the McDonald Administration
obtained forty-eight war surplus build-
ings which were moved from the Ogden
Arsenal to create Wymount Village for
housing married students and their
families and the "D" Dorms for single
men. They were used intensively until
they were removed in 1962-63 to pro-
vide for campus expansion and im-
proved housing.

( Bottom )

Temporary buildings were also moved
to campus to provide offices and class-
rooms in addition to housing. This
Butler Hut became part of the Speech
Center — a series of Butler Huts con-
nected by hallways. It housed the
Speech and Hearing Clinic, campus
radio station KBYU, the scenery shop, a
costume shop, offices of seventeen
faculty members, eight classrooms, and
a conference room. The first home of
the BYU Air Force ROTC unit also was
in a Butler Hut like this.

177

(Top)

These temporary buildings housed the
Student Health Center, left, and the
Bookstore. This is the present location
of the Martin-Widtsoe Life Sciences
Center.

(Center)

Housed also in temporary buildings was
the University Press (Printing Service),
located just east of the Herald R. Clark
Building on a site which is now a park-
ing lot. This was a large operation, in-
cluding the publication of books, bro-
chures, pamphlets, posters, and the
student newspaper. Press operations
continued here until construction of the
present facilities on 1700 North Street
in 1968. Shown here are Richard F.
Beach (left) and Elmo Robinson.

(Bottom)

Also benefiting from the acquisition of
the war surplus buildings was the Re-
ceiving Department, housed in a quon-
set hut just east of the Harvey Fletcher
Engineering Laboratory Building.

tTF: ; ' ■ H

Tfi

178

(Top)

A large war surplus temporary building
that might have seen duty as a mess hall
or a day room was moved to the spot
where the Engineering Sciences and
Technology Building now stands and
became the Wymount Cafeteria, serving
mostly the men who were housed in the
"D" Dorms.

(Center)

After more than a decade of intensive
use, proving a boon to the burgeoning
University in a time of rapid growth, the
temporary buildings were removed from
1959 to 1963 to make way for more
modern buildings. This was the demise
of the old North Building, which had
four wings and which provided much-
needed offices and classrooms. It
housed the Journalism Department, the
Sociology Department, much of the
College of Business, the News Bureau,
and summer school offices. The Harold
B. Lee Library was later constructed on
the site.

(Bottom)

Knight-Mangum Hall, left, which origi-
nally housed 280 coeds, and the Social
Hall, right, were completed in 1948 dur-
ing the McDonald administration, with
Fred L. Markham as architect. The halls
were named at a dedication of several
buildings on May 26, 1954, for two
sisters-in-law, who were lifelong friends
of the University — Lucy Jane Brimhall
Knight and Jennie Knight Mangum.
Before completion of the Language
Training Mission complex north of
campus in the 1970s, these halls were
residences and a school for missionaries.
Located at the southeast corner of the
campus, they consist of five levels on a
hillside and are constructed of golden
buff brick and white pressed stone.

179

(Top)

The nucleus of Knight-Mangum Hall
was built in the mid-thirties when the
National Youth Administration chose
that location to build a training school.
With permission of University officials,
a building 50 by 200 feet was con-
structed. After the war, it was pur-
chased by the Presiding Bishopric as a
chapel for the Twelfth and Thirteenth
Wards of the Church and the Social
Hall was purchased for the University.
The accompanying photograph shows
how it appeared as the residence halls
were being added.

(Center)

Knight-Mangum Hall had its own cafe-
teria for its 280 women occupants.

(Bottom)

Church President George Albert Smith,
center, spoke at the groundbreaking
ceremonies for the Carl F. Eyring Physi-
cal Science Center on May 11, 1948.
On the stand also were Fred Markham
(hand in pocket), architect; Dean Carl
F. Eyring, in whose honor the building
was named; BYU President Howard S.
McDonald (with shovel); and Elder
Stephen L Richards, apostle. The cere-
mony took place at a spot formerly oc-
cupied by tennis courts and the old
Raymond Grove.

180

(Top left)

The Carl F. Eyring Science Center under
construction in December, 1949.

( Top right)

A kibitzer, very likely an over-anxious
faculty member, supervised as work-
men moved the superstructure of the
Eyring Science Center astronomical ob-
servatory into place.

(Bottom)

When it was dedicated on October 17,
1950, as a highlight of the Diamond
Jubilee, the Carl F. Eyring Science
Center was the largest, most imposing
academic building of its kind in the
Mountain West. A milestone in campus
growth and expansion, the $2 million
structure added floor space (147,467

square feet) equal to that of six other
major campus buildings. Dr. Carl F.
Eyring, in whose honor it was named,
was dean of the College of Arts and
Sciences, and had spent literally decades
in advocating, planning, and modifying
the concept of the building. Designed
by Fred L. Markham and constructed by
Christiansen Brothers, the building has
cantilever stairways and a central
Foucault pendulum. It contains 214
rooms, including 48 offices, 24 class-
rooms, 98 laboratories, 14 service rooms,
an astronomical observatory, a plane-
tarium, two acoustics chambers, 33
built-in display cases, 2,000 windows,
and 400 doors. A total of 2,500 stu-
dents can be accommodated in class-
rooms and laboratories every hour.

181

(Top left )

In 1949 senior and graduate students
moved stacks of books from various
locations on campus to the Heber J.
Grant Library for processing in prepara-
tion for a later move to the Eyring Sci-
ence Center, then under construction.

(Top right)

This was the crowd in the foyer of the
Center when the building was named
and dedicated.

(Center)

Dr. Eyring was ill when the Science
Center was dedicated and named in his
honor on October 17, 1950, as part of
the Diamond Jubilee celebration, but he
attended anyway and gave the principal
address. He died January 3, 1951.

(Bottom )

Students immediately nicknamed the
Eyring Science Center's excellent
amphitheater lecture rooms "snake
pits." Lecture halls, laboratories, and
libraries in the building were named in
honor of Elder John A. Widtsoe, Elder
James E. Talmage, and Elder Orson
Pratt, all apostles, scientists, and edu-
cators; Franklin L. West, BYU physics
professor and later LDS Church com-
missioner of education; and professors
who gave long and distinguished service
to the school and their fields: Charles
E. Maw (chemistry), Joseph K. Nicholes
(chemistry), Albert C. Boyle (geology),
Frederick Buss (geology), Wayne B.
Hales (physics), George H. Hansen
(geology), Edwin S. Hinckley (geology),
and Frank Warren Smith (donor of a
scientific library to BYU).

182

/Mttj

PyW . 1

A to- -1

^ A S JH

MM ?L l jm

(Top)

When it opened in 1950, the Eyring
Science Center became the hub of ac-
tivity, having doubled the size of the
campus. Centerpiece of the main foyer
is a forty-two-foot Foucault pendulum,
which demonstrates the earth's rotation.
It was named in honor of Dr. Milton
Marshall (metallurgist and chairman of
the BYU Department of Physics and the
Department of Mathematics) at the
same time the building was dedicated.

(Center)

A chemistry laboratory in the Eyring
Science Center.

(Bottom left)

A twenty-four-inch reflecting telescope,
the largest in Utah, was installed in the
Eyring Science Center observatory in
1958. Dr. Delbert McNamara, as-
tronomy and physics, has used the in-
strument extensively for research on
binary and eclipsing stars.

(Bottom right)

Dr. H. Kimball Hansen of the BYU
Physics Department adjusts the pro-
jector in the Summerhays planetarium
atop the Eyring Science Center. An
audience of sixty can view the celestial
show on the underside of the dome.
Constructed in 1957, it was the first
planetarium in the state of Utah. It was
donated by Mr. and Mrs. Hyrum B.
Summerhays of Salt Lake City and
named in honor of Mr. Summerhays'
mother, Mrs. Sarah Berrett Summer-
hays. In 1971 they donated additional
funds to replace the original Spitz opti-
cal projector with a Viewlex console and
projector.

183

(Top)

Students Phyllis Hansen and Brent
Haymond examine the speakers for the
carillonic bell system which was in-
stalled atop the Eyring Science Center
in 1957. Bell concerts, which could be
heard over the campus and much of the
city, were played every evening during
the 1960s. They also sounded the hours,
advertised campus events, played
religious hymns after devotional as-
semblies, enhanced the Christmas spirit,
and even called off Y Day a couple of
times by playing "Stormy Weather."
The sixty-two-note system was com-
pletely rebuilt in 1973. The speakers,
broadcasting a band record rather than
the bells, also played the National An-
fhem during the raising and lowering of
the flag each day.

(Center)

The construction of the George Albert
Smith Fieldhouse was the fulfillment of
a dream of Brigham Young University
athletics enthusiasts and physical edu-
cation faculty, who had labored long to
achieve such a structure. BYU basket-
ball teams had played for decades in the
Men's Gymnasium in the Training
Building, in the Women's Gymnasium
on University Avenue, and finally in the
Springville High School Gymnasium,
although BYU had become a large uni-
versity in competition with other large
schools. Dr. Edwin R. Kimball (athletic
director). Dr. Ariel S. Ballif (chairman
of the Athletic Council), and Dr. P. A.
Christensen (faculty representative to
the Mountain States Conference) had
long faced criticism by other schools
concerning inadequate facilities.

President Howard S. McDonald had
planned for a fieldhouse as early as
1946, but approval did not come until
March 10, 1950, when Dr. Christen
Jensen was acting president of the Uni-
versity and George Albert Smith was
President of the Church. Under the
proposed plan BYU would be required
to raise one-half of the estimated one-
million-dollar cost of the building, and
Dr. Jensen immediately appointed Dean
Wesley P. Lloyd as chairman of the

184

fund-raising drive.

On May 24, 1950, more than 7,000
persons gathered just south of the foot-
ball stadium to watch the groundbreak-
ing ceremonies. Elder Joseph Field-
ing Smith turned the first earth, and
contractors Garff-Ryberg-Garff began
working from the plans drawn by archi-
tects Fred L. Markham, W. Rowe Smith,
and Richard W. Jackson. The original
building, 428 feet long and 180 feet
wide, covered almost two acres and con-
tained 315 tons of steel and 229,000
square feet of brick surface.

Before the building was entirely
finished, two major events were con-
ducted there — the commencement
exercises of June 1951 and the inaugura-
tion of President Ernest L. Wilkinson on
October 8, 1951. The official opening
and inaugural game was held on Decem-
ber 1, 1951, at which President Stephen
L Richards was the speaker and the
BYU basketball team, which had won
the National Invitational Tournament in
New York the previous March, won the
first game on their new home court by
defeating Arizona University 68-62.

Besides the main auditorium section,
which was expanded to accommodate
11,000 spectators, the original Field-
house also contained two gymnasiums,
boxing and wrestling rooms, squash and
handball courts, classrooms, and offices.
More than an athletic plant, it was used
also for graduation exercises, devotional
assemblies, student functions, concerts,
and civic activities.

In 1959 an annex was built that ex-
tended the building 180 feet to the west
and provided for an all-weather indoor
field for baseball, golf, and track teams.

physical education classes, and intra-
mural events.

Another addition was built in 1964
that extended the east end 150 feet and
added more handball courts, trainers'
rooms, taping and treatment rooms, a
physician's office, a steam room, a
whirlpool bath, locker rooms, showers,
and equipment rooms.

(Opposite page, bottom)

The George Albert Smith Fieldhouse as
it appeared after extensions were added
to both east and west ends.

(Top left)

Radio announcers Jim Ludlow and
Jimmy Lawrence gave a spade by spade
account as Elder Joseph Fielding Smith

and acting BYU President Christen
Jensen broke ground for the new Field-
house on May 24, 1950, before a crowd
of 7,000 sports enthusiasts.

(Top right)

Construction of the Fieldhouse ran into
difficulty because of the high water
table on the flat below the hillside.
Concrete footings had to be constructed
in water as pumps worked constantly to
remove the excess.

(Bottom)

The George Albert Smith Fieldhouse
under construction in 1950.

185

14 / ft - Ig#

, MW

(Top)

Graduating seniors at the 1950 senior
breakfast on commencement day dis-
played the Fieldhouse Fund Drive gift
pledges they had signed.

(Center)

Dr. Wesley P. Lloyd, right, chairman of
the fund-raising project for the George
Albert Smith Fieldhouse, discusses plans
with some of the committee members:
Dr. Harold Glen Clark, left; Dr. Weldon
J. Taylor; downtown chairman Charles
Sessions (seated), and Aura Hatch.

(Bottom)

From 1951 until 1971, the Fieldhouse
was the scene of impressive commence-
ment ceremonies, as faculty and stu-
dents in academic robes formed long
processions down the terraced hillside
steps to the building. In later years the
large numbers of graduates filled the
entire playing floor and parts of the
balconies and bleachers.

(Opposite page, top)

For twenty years, from 1951 to 1971,
BYU varsity and freshman basketball
games were played before usually jam-
packed crowds of 11,000 in the George
Albert Smith Fieldhouse.

(Opposite page, bottom)

Commencement exercises were held in
the new Fieldhouse in June, 1951, even
before the building was completed, and
every spring and summer thereafter un-
til the Marriott Center was completed
in 1971.

186

?////>•

tffr ifiLr - ytL^

r N v

x -

TwW»

S-SSrSp

187

(Top)

A section of graduates in caps and
gowns in the Fieldhouse formed an in-
teresting pattern.

(Center)

The George Albert Smith Fieldhouse
has served as a building of remarkable
versatility and utility, providing for
assemblies, convocations, and public
events which would not have been pos-
sible without such a facility. This is a
photograph of one of the "Welcome
Back" assemblies which were held at
the beginning of each school year, and
in which students sat according to their
geographic origin.

(Bottom)

This 180-foot annex to the Fieldhouse
was constructed in 1959 to provide
year-round indoor field practice for
track and golf and for baseball teams
and intramural activities.

pANAMA

MEXICO

COSU RJCA

GUATEMALA

188

(Top left )

Floyd R. Taylor, who presided as ticket
manager for the Fieldhouse (and who
later became athletic business manager),
here sells seats for basketball games to
the Paul D. Vincent family of Provo.

(Top right)

A unique assembly program, likely un-
matched on any other campus, was con-
ducted throughout the 1950s and 1960s,
when two assemblies were held each
week — devotionals on Tuesdays and
forums on Thursdays. General Au-
thorities and other Church leaders were
speakers at the devotionals, and world
figures in science, letters, adventure,
government, and the arts lectured in the
forums. One-half hour of University
credit was given for attendance at each
of the series, and the Fieldhouse was
filled for most sessions. Assemblies
were reduced to one per week in 1971.
This is an assembly during the Wilkin-
son era.

(Center)

Freshman orientation examinations were
held in the Fieldhouse gymnasiums.

(Bottom)

The spaciousness of the Fieldhouse also
provided an ideal setting for registra-
tion before the more streamlined com-
puterized processes were inaugurated in
the Richards Building.

189

(Top)

Young men fly through the air with the
greatest of ease in this gymnastics class
in the new east extension of the George
Albert Smith Fieldhouse.

(Center)

The Women's Gymnasium on lower
campus served for physical education
classes even after construction of the
Fieldhouse in 1951, as seen in this 1955
photograph.

(Bottom)

The flood of students after World War
II caused difficulties in providing reli-
gious services for the suddenly large stu-
dent body. In June, 1947, the Wymount
Branch was formed, made up mostly of
veterans' families living in Wymount
Village. In the accompanying photo-
graph many babies await blessing in a
fast meeting of the Wymount Branch.
In August of the same year a branch
was organized for single students,
which met in the Smith Building. But
all classes were too large, and the or-
ganization remained part of the East
Provo Stake. It was not until the Wil-
kinson administration that campus
stakes and wards (later to become
branches) were organized.

190

(Top)

The first student radio station at Brig-
ham Young University was KBYU,
which began broadcasting in October,
1946. Three students in an early radio
workshop were: LaRae Collett, left;

Thomas Wheelwright, and Betty Jo
Hawkins.

(Center)

Dr. Alonzo J. Morley, debate coach in
1946, tells his four talkative debaters to
"cool it." The group, which won out-
standing success that year, included
LaMar Buckner of Ogden, left; R. La-
Marr Eggertsen, Provo; Mary Donna
Jones, Pocatello, Idaho; and Carma
Mendenhall, Springville, Utah.

(Bottom)

These attractive young ladies were drum
majorettes in 1945-46.

191

(Top)

The homecoming queen in 1947 was
Colleen Kay Hutchins, center, who
went on to become Miss America in
1952. Her attendants were Jean Rom-
ney, left, and Myrlene Romney.

(Center)

Homecoming Queen Colleen Hutchins,
with her attendants, Myrlene Romney
and Jean Romney, rides the Queen's
float in the Homecoming Parade in
1947.

¥( *,

m-vW,

§r

iifj

(Bottom)

Guests of the Hawaiian Club in 1946
were Elder and Mrs. Spencer W. Kim-
ball (third and fourth from right), with
Dr. Gerrit de Jong, Jr., dean of the
College of Fine Arts, and President
Howard S. McDonald (back row). Elder
Kimball became President of The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints in December, 1973.

(Opposite page, top left)

This BYU basketball team won the
Mountain States Conference champion-
ship in 1947-48. Members are, back
row: Brady Walker, left; Mel Hutchins,
Clark Greenhalgh, Ivan Beem, Joe
Weight, Joe Nelson, D. Ray Fullmer;
front row: Rand C. Clark, Richard

Montgomery, Ted Thiel, Evan Nielsen,
Jay Hamblin, Jack Whipple; kneeling:
assistant Coach Wayne Soffe, head
Coach Floyd Millet, and Trainer C.
Rodney Kimball.

192

(Bottom)

Returning to Provo after participating
in the NAIA tournament in Kansas City,
members of the 1947-48 basketball
team were welcomed by, among others,
actress Colleen Townsend, who was
then a BYU coed. Somewhat somber
after winning one and losing one in the
national tournament, the players in the
picture include, left to right: Joe Nel-
son, Mel Hutchins, Ike Beem, Ray Full-
mer, Randy Clark, and Brady Walker.
Nelson, the star of the 1948 club, set a
conference scoring record with a total
of 37 points in the game against Denver.

(Top right)

After a hard-earned basketball victory
over the University of Utah on a cold

night in 1949, a group of overly en-
thusiastic students climbed the stairs to
the belfrey of the Education Building
and pounded the Old Y Bell with heavy
hammers. The unusual stress and
colliding vibrations within the bell
caused it to crack up one side, resulting
in a loss of its tone.

That was only one episode in the long,
colorful, and sometimes violent history
of the old bell, which is eighty-eight
years old as the University celebrates its
Centennial.

Several bells were forerunners of the
Old Y Bell. The first, that hung in the
Lewis Building, went down in the fire of
1884 and was never retrieved. A rail-
road engine bell rang out hourly class
changes in the old ZCMI warehouse un-

til 1888, when James E. Talmage in-
stalled battery-operated electric class
bells. In the Academy (Education)
Building, class changes were announced
by a steel triangle in the hall.

In 1912 a cast iron bell thirty-six
inches in diameter was purchased from
the American Bell Foundry of North-
ville, Michigan, but it had a dull sound
and was later given to the Maple Dell
Boy Scout Camp.

When the Old Tabernacle, or Meet-
ing House, was razed in 1919, its fine
nickel bell was moved to the tower in
the High School (Education) Building.
This (the current old Ybell) was cast by
the McShane Bell Foundry of Baltimore
in 1887 and has a beautiful tone. When
it was first installed in the Education
Building it was rung by a long rope
which hung from the belfrey down
through the rooms to the second floor
in the hall. Lester B. Whetten (later
dean of the General College) and Karl
Miller of the Physical Plant Department
recall they were assigned to ring the
bell for class changes and to proclaim
athletic victories. The rope was later
replaced by an electrical device designed
by J. W. Sauls.

In the accompanying photograph,
B. T. Higgs, superintendent of buildings
and grounds, poses with the old bell in
the Education Building belfry.

193

(Top left)

Then came the 1949 incident when the
bell was cracked. It was removed and
taken to the physical plant shops where
it was repaired. Services of two experts
were obtained — John Champaux, a
traveling instructor from the Oxyweld
Company, and Frank Hemingway, a
welder from the Union Pacific Railroad
shops. The entire bell was placed in a
brick oven and heated to a high tem-
perature while the welding was per-
formed; then it was allowed to cool
slowly.

(Top right)

Student Jack Cowan examined the Old
Y Bell after it was repaired and stored
in the boiler room of the heating plant.
The scar of its welded crack is visible.

(Center)

Before it was placed in a permanent
tower, the Y Bell was towed around
town on a trailer and rung after athletic
victories by the Intercollegiate Knights.
Performing the honor on this occasion
were Lynn Hemingway, Robert Mitchell,
Roger Victor, and Blaine Palmer.

(Bottom)

During the 1950s it was traditional for
graduating seniors to take a last nos-
talgic trek around campus the day be-
fore commencement. At the end of the
Senior Trek each student had the oppor-
tunity to ring the Old Y Bell to an-
nounce his personal victory.

194

(Left)

On occasion the Old Y Bell even par-
ticipated in parades.

(Center)

The bell and trailer were stolen in the
spring of 1958 and discovered six
months later in a field west of Spring-
ville. After this incident, the student
body took action, and the bell was per-
manently suspended in a steel tower
located on the west side of the campus
near the edge of the hill. The Y Bell
Tower was dedicated during the Home-
coming assembly of 1959.

But the bell's troubles were not over.
On February 4, 1973, the bell came
tumbling down as it was being rung
after the dedication of the Marriott
Center. The yoke suspending the bell
had broken. The bell was extensively
cracked, and the top was broken out.
This time repair appeared impossible,
but it was again hauled to the physical
plant shops, where another welding job
was attempted by Ray Mortensen, a
welder; Elmo Croft, a machinist; Evan
Miner, a student assistant; and J. Petty
Jones, foreman. After another carefully
controlled cooling period, the bell was
again mounted in the tower. It carries
a few scars, but its tone is as good as
ever.

(Right)

In the 1930s Dr. Carlton Culmsee wrote
the words to music composed about the
bell by Professor William H. Hanson,
who was also composer of "The College
Song" (words by Annie Pike Green-
wood) and the Timpanogos-based
opera, "The Bleeding Heart."

THE OLD Y BELL

There's only one note in the iron throat
Of the Old Y Bell,

But round and sweet are the strokes that
beat

And boom and swell.

And all year long there's only one song,

But the Old bell rings it clear:

"Good will to youth in quest of truth,

You are welcome here."

Another song about the bell, both
words and music, was composed by
Clyde D. Sandgren (accompanying
photograph), also composer of "The
Cougar Song." Sandgren was a gradu-
ate of 1937, former president of the
Alumni Association for four years, and
University general counsel and vice-
president since 1954. His song was
sung at the dedication of the new bell
tower in 1959, at which President Sand-
gren also gave the dedicatory prayer.

THE OLD Y BELL

Beloved Alma Mater, your voice is dear
to me;

It echoes from a tower where a bell
swings free.

Today and through the ages, this anthem
will be sung,

Your fame to praise, our song we raise to
Brigham Young.

The Old Y Bell rings out o'er the valley
wide,

A welcoming call to one and all who seek
learning.

The Old Y Bell rings out from the
mountainside,

A bid to all youth to find the truth of life's
yearning.

Ring loud! Ring true! Ring out for BYU!
Ring far! Ring near! Ring long and clear!
VJe love to hear The Old Y Bell resound to
a victory.

Our pledge we renew to guard over you,
The Old Y Bell.

195

siLm\

ptfrep

SbwG

of? thz

Brigham Young
UN I ve r. s? it y

Music by Wa/t Daniels
Words by Glenn Potter

"Alma Pater," the pep song of BYU,
was written in 1931, with words by
Glenn Potter and music by Walt
Daniels. It was sung often and loudly
by the student body at athletic events
and other occasions until 1947 and
since that time has been played by the
band frequently but not sung. Sung to
a very quick rhythm, the lyrics were:

We praise our Alma Mater, our Alma
Mammy too,

We cheer for Yale and Harvard, with a
boola boola boo,

You've heard the "Sons of U tah," the A.C.
anthems sung,

So here's a song we offer at the shrine of
Brigham Young.

Our Alma Pater for you we're fighting
To hear our Cougars scream victory.

His fangs are dripping with blood of battle,
Come on we'll FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!
for thee.

It's in your honor we cheer our warriors,
Our songs are ringing, our banners flung,
We're sons of Brigham, united ever,

To fight for Brigham Young.

"The Cougar Song," by Clyde Sandgren,
replaced the "Alma Pater" as the fight
and pep song in 1947. The familiar
"Rise and Shout" strains greet the team
at the opening of every game, and are
often heard also on radio and television
as the BYU theme song and background
music:

Rise, all loyal Cougars and hurl your
challenge to the foe

You will fight day or night, rain or snow.
Stalwart men and true wear the white and
blue,

While we sing get set to spring,

Come on, Cougars, its up to you.

Oh! Rise and shout, the Cougars are out
Along the trail to fame and glory.

Rise and shout, our cheers will ring out
As you unfold your victory story.

On you go to vanquish the foe

For Alma Mater's sons and daughters.

As we join in song in praise of you our
faith is strong.

We'll raise our colors high in the blue
And cheer our Cougars ofBYU.

196

The Great
Expansion

1951-1971

When Dr. Ernest Leroy Wilkinson took
over the reins of Brigham Young Uni-
versity in 1951, he already had built a
successful career and a national reputa-
tion as an attorney.

He began the practice of law in 1928
as an associate of the Honorable Charles
Evans Hughes, later Chief Justice of the
United States Supreme Court. Later Dr.
Wilkinson moved to Washington, D.C.,
where he organized his own law firm.

As attorney for the Ute Indians he
handled one case lasting over sixteen
years, in which he put into evidence
testimony and exhibits aggregating over
34,000 pages. That case, together with
three others, resulted in four judgments
totalling $31,500,000.

The Honorable Seth Richardson, who
had been assistant attorney general in
charge of defending Indian tribal claims
against the government, testified that
the amount and quality of service ren-
dered by Dr. Wilkinson and his asso-
ciates "almost staggers our imagination
.... I never saw anything like this in my
life. ... To me the amount of services
rendered here is almost impossible for
the ordinary mind to grasp."

Dr. Wilkinson was born in Ogden,
Utah, on May 4, 1899, a son of Robert
and Cecilia Anderson Wilkinson, his
father a native of Scotland and his
mother of Danish ancestry. He received
his early education in Ogden schools
and Weber College, graduated from
Brigham Young University in 1921, and
served as a private in the U.S. Army in
1918.

He graduated from George Washing-
ton University Law School, summa cum
laude, in 1926 and received the degree
of Doctor of Juridical Science at Harvard
University in 1927.

It was at BYU that he met Alice Lud-
low, and they were married in 1923.
They became parents of three sons and
two daughters, all of whom attended
BYU.

He was a member of the faculty of
Weber College from 1921 to 1923; of
the faculty of Business High School in
Washington, D.C. from 1923 to 1926;
and superintendent of Camp Good Will

198

at Washington in 1925. He was ad-
mitted to the Washington, D.C., Bar in
1926; the Utah Bar in 1927; the New
York Bar in 1928; and he held a pro-
fessorship in law at New Jersey Law
School from 1927 to 1933. He was
chairman of the Fellows of the American
Bar Association for the State of Utah.

While in the East he served as presi-
dent of Manhattan Queens Branch of
the LDS Church, bishop of Queens
Ward, and a member of the Washington
Stake Presidency.

With a national reputation as an
attorney. Dr. Wilkinson took office at
BYU in February 1951, and his twenty-
year administration was interrupted
only once; that was in 1964 when he
unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. Senate.

In those twenty years he gained na-
tional fame as he built BYU into the
largest church-related university in the
United States, and enrollment grew
from 4,654 in 1950 to 25,021 in 1970,
accompanied by an amazing building
program, an expansion of the faculty
and the curriculum, and by special
programs.

Under his forceful guidance, the cam-
pus grew to a spacious, beautiful plant
of more than 300 buildings with over
five million square feet of floor space.

He considered as probably the great-
est accomplishment during his adminis-
tration the organization on campus of
wards and stakes of The Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints — a plan
which he proposed to the Church lead-
ers. When he became president, one
branch of the Church existed on cam-
pus; in 1971 ten stakes with ninety-
eight wards were operating.

President Wilkinson also placed great
emphasis on scholarship; during his
administration the curriculum was com-
pletely revised. The original five col-
leges were expanded to thirteen: Bio-
logical and Agricultural Sciences, Busi-
ness, Education, Family Living, Fine
Arts and Communications, General
College, Humanities, Industrial and
Technical Education, Nursing, Physical
and Engineering Sciences, Physical Edu-
cation, Religious Education, and Social

Sciences. In addition the Graduate
School, Continuing Education, Research
Division, and Computer Services were
incorporated.

To the bachelor's and master's de-
grees were added the associate and doc-
tor's degrees. The school changed from
the quarter system to the semester sys-
tem, scholarships were expanded, and
the Honors Program was established.
Under his aegis many other programs
were added, such as Army and Air
Force ROTC, the weekly forum of great
speakers, the Indian Education Pro-
gram, intramural sports, youth leader-
ship courses, the Master of Business
Administration program, the Institute
of Government Service, the Institute of
Mormon Studies, the Institute of Book
of Mormon Studies, Asian Studies,
Latin-American Studies, and many
others.

In recognition of his accomplish-
ments, the BYU Board of Trustees
named the spacious student activities
building the Ernest L. Wilkinson Center
at dedication ceremonies on April 3,
1965. The Board also conferred on him
the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws
in 1957, and he received the honorary
degree of Doctor of Public Service from
the University of Ft. Lauderdale in June,
1970, and the honorary Doctor of Laws
degree from Grove City College, Penn-
sylvania, in 1971.

In addition to being president of BYU,
he was chancellor of the Unified Church
School System from 1953 to 1964. The
Church School System consisted of a
junior college, 161 institutes of religion
near universities and colleges, 1,658
seminaries near high schools, the LDS
Business College, the Brigham Young
Laboratory School, and, in Mexico, two
academies and twenty-four elementary
schools.

A figure of national importance. Dr.
Wilkinson was a member of the Na-
tional Committee of Army and Navy
Chaplains from 1947 to 1950; a member
of the governor's committee represent-
ing Utah to the White House Conference
on Education in 1955; a delegate to the
Republican National Conventions in

1956, 1960, 1968, and 1972; a member
of the Resolutions Committee for the
Republican National Convention in

1960 and 1968; a member of the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce committees on
Government Expenditures from 1952 to
1958, and on National Defense in 1959;
an Overseer of Freedom Foundation at
Valley Forge, and president of The Na-
tional Right to Work Legal Defense
Foundation. He was also a board mem-
ber of many business and civic or-
ganizations.

He served as president of the Ameri-
can Association of Independent College
and University Presidents from 1968 to
1969, and in that capacity testified in
behalf of private universities and col-
leges before the Senate Finance Com-
mittee to preserve financial aids to edu-
cation during hearings for the Tax
Reform Bill.

High honor came to Dr. Wilkinson in

1961 when he was awarded the George
Washington Medal by the Freedom
Foundation for his address to the Na-
tional Chamber of Commerce on free
enterprise, and again in 1971 for his
address to the Oakland Rotary Club.
In 1963 at a public dinner at the Hotel
Utah he received the highest award of
the American Coalition of Patriotic
Societies.

His resignation was accepted by the
Board of Trustees on March 9, 1971,
effective at the end of that school year.
He subsequently accepted an assign-
ment to write the comprehensive history
of Brigham Young University.

199

(Top)

At the seventy-fifth anniversary con-
vocation in the Joseph Smith Building
auditorium on October 16, 1950, Presi-
dent J. Reuben Clark, Jr. (at the pulpit),
introduced Dr. Ernest L. Wilkinson as
the new president of Brigham Young
University. Church President George
Albert Smith is at right, and at far left
are Elders Richard L. Evans and Henry
D. Moyle. The Diamond Jubilee lasted
two days. On the following day, Octo-
ber 17, 1950, the Carl F. Eyring Science
Center was named and dedicated.

(Center)

Heading the academic procession of the
official seventy-fifth anniversary con-
vocation on October 16, 1950, were Dr.
Rufus Von Kleinschmidt, left; president
of the University of Southern California
and visiting speaker; Dr. Ernest L.
Wilkinson, who was introduced on this
day for the first time as the new presi-
dent of BYU but who did not take office
until the following February; and
Church President George Albert Smith,
who presided at the services in the
Joseph Smith Memorial Building
auditorium.

(Bottom)

For the BYU Diamond Jubilee, the
Alumni Association distributed this
souvenir dinner plate, made of fine
china and decorated in blue and beige
tones. The design presented six of the
University buildings around the rim
and a representation in the center of
Karl G. Maeser pointing to Provo in a
geography lesson. The preliminary de-
sign was sketched by Jennie Knight
Mangum, chairman of the plate com-
mittee, and finished by the manufac-
turers. Only two thousand of the
souvenir plates were made.

200

(Top left )

Dr. and Mrs. Ernest L. Wilkinson posed
with their children for the official family
portrait when Dr. Wilkinson took over
the BYU helm: Mrs. Wilkinson, left;
Marian, Alice Ann, Ernest Ludlow,
David Lawrence, Douglas Dwight, and
President Wilkinson. Photo by Glogau.

( Top right)

Leading the procession from the Maeser
Memorial Building to the George Albert
Smith Fieldhouse for the inauguration
of President Ernest L. Wilkinson on
October 8, 1951, were Church President

David O. McKay and President Wilkin-
son; President Stephen L Richards, first
counselor to President McKay, who
delivered the charge; Wilbur LaRoe, Jr.,
prominent Washington, D.C., attorney,
who delivered the address and received
an Honorary Doctor of Humanities de-
gree at the services; President J. Reuben
Clark, Jr., second counselor to President
McKay; former BYU President Howard
S. McDonald; President Joseph Fielding
Smith; former BYU acting President
Christen Jensen; and University of Utah
President A. Ray Olpin. The day also
included the registration of delegates,
an inaugural luncheon in the Social
Hall, a reception for the President and
Mrs. Wilkinson in the Joseph Smith
Building, and the inaugural ball in the
Joseph Smith Building Ballroom and the
Social Hall.

( Center )

Not all of the balconies had been con-
structed in the George Albert Smith
Fieldhouse when inauguration cere-
monies for President Ernest L. Wilkin-
son were held on October 8, 1951.

( Bottom )

President and Mrs. Wilkinson at home
on inauguration day, October 8, 1951.

201

(Top)

This was a scene at the luncheon in the
Social Hall on President Wilkinson's
inauguration day.

(Center)

This was the reception line in the Joseph
Smith Building as friends and digni-
taries filed by to wish President and
Mrs. Wilkinson well. Mrs. Wilkinson
can be seen through the crowd near the
door.

(Bottom)

The inaugural ball in the Social Hall.
Another ball was in progress at the
Joseph Smith Building.

. 1

202

(Top)

President and Mrs. Ernest L. Wilkinson
in their first Homecoming Parade, 1951.

(Center)

Indian tribal leaders visiting the state
always made it a point to visit President
Wilkinson, who had represented their
people in the courts.

(Bottom)

President Wilkinson proved to be an
iron man in the handshaking depart-
ment. Every year at registration time he
stationed himself at the entrance to the
Fieldhouse on the day the freshmen
signed up, shook hands with every new
student, and conversed with most of
them about their hometowns and
families.

203

(Top)

Church President David O. McKay,
who received an Honorary Doctor of
Humanities degree on the occasion,
kisses a small girl who had placed a lei
around his neck at commencement
exercises in June, 1951, in the George
Albert Smith Fieldhouse. At left is
Elder Joseph Fielding Smith, who re-
ceived the Honorary Doctor of Litera-
ture degree; Walther Mathesius, super-
intendent of Geneva Steel Corporation,
who received an Honorary Doctor of
Science degree; President Stephen L
Richards, counselor of President McKay;
and BYU President Ernest L. Wilkinson.
Mr. and Mrs. Mathesius contributed
generously toward a fund for outstand-
ing musical artists and organizations at
BYU. President Richards received the
Honorary Doctor of Law degree in 1953.

(Center)

Since the beginning of the Wilkinson
administration, the approach of the
autumn term each year has been marked
by a faculty preschool workshop of two
or three days, which has involved, in
addition to regular instructional ses-
sions, an address by a member of the
General Authorities of the Church and a
luncheon or supper for the entire faculty
and staff. At the preschool workshop
on September 19, 1953, special speaker
in the Joseph Smith Building auditorium
was Church President David O. McKay.
After the session, in a Western theme

y* w, 2 (

fi-. ’b

W 7

jn v A

PirN 1
/j

spoof, he and Mrs. McKay were rounded
up by a security guard of two "sheriffs"
— Dr. George H. Hansen, left, of geol-
ogy, and Dr. Ariel S. Williams, director
of the Student Health Center — who
escorted them to a chuckwagon luncheon
and took them on a turn around the
campus in a horse-drawn buggy.

(Bottom)

Every year at the preschool conference
for the entire faculty and staff, the BYU
Food Services perform a minor miracle
by serving 4,000 to 5,000 persons in
about fifteen minutes. This was one
such setup in the 1960s in the Field-
house Annex as the food service crews
awaited the onrush of thousands of
hungry diners.

204

J i

(Top)

Following an assembly address on May
9, 1961, in the George Albert Smith
Fieldhouse, Church President David O.
McKay was surrounded by admiring
faculty members and students.

( Bottom )

Dr. Flarvey Fletcher, father of stereo-

phonic sound and one of the world's
most honored scientists, here supervises
work of graduate student Ted Crowther
in the anechoic chamber beneath the
Eyring Science Center. Dr. Fletcher
graduated from BYU in 1907 and in
1911 received the Ph.D. degree, summa
cum laude, from the University of Chi-
cago, the first physics student to re-

ceive this high honor. While at Chicago
he worked with Dr. Robert A. Millikan
on the problem of isolating the electron,
and he built an apparatus to pass an
electric charge through a field of
atomized oil. In 1910 the results of
their work were announced, and the
research won for Dr. Millikan the Nobel
prize and opened the vast field of elec-
tronics.

From 1911 to 1916 Dr. Fletcher
headed the Department of Physics at
BYU. In 1916 he went to Bell Telephone
Laboratories, where he served as di-
rector of physical research until 1949;
then he became professor of electrical
engineering at Columbia University.

He returned to BYU in 1952 as di-
rector of research, and when the College
of Physical and Engineering Sciences
was formed in 1954, he was appointed
its first dean. The Harvey Fletcher
Engineering Science Laboratory Build-
ing was named in his honor.

It was his belief that a sense of space
might be conveyed to an audience by
the use of separate sound channels from
originating states. He first demon-
strated such a system in 1933 between
Philadelphia and Washington and a
similar one with wider frequencies in
New York in 1941, giving rise to the
field of stereophonic sound. He di-
rected the development of the audiometer
and was first to introduce it into the
classroom for the mass testing of the
hearing of schoolchildren.

He has to his credit more than twenty
inventions in sound that range from
stereophonic devices to those enabling
the deaf to hear and the dumb to speak.
Millions over the world benefit from his
contributions to telephone, radio, mo-
tion pictures, and the hearing aid. He
has been honored by the President of
the United States for contributions to
the nation's defense and by dozens of
universities and professional associa-
tions. His first wife, Lorena Chipman
Fletcher, was named American Mother
of the year, 1965. She died in 1967, and
in 1969 he married Fern Chipman
Eyring, Lorena's sister and widow of
Carl F. Eyring.

205

(Top)

Dr. T. Earl Pardoe, second from left, who
had served as chairman of the Depart-
ment of Speech and Dramatic Arts since
1919, received the felicitations of Presi-
dent Ernest L. Wilkinson on March 22,
1952, when Pardoe relinquished the
chairmanship after thirty-three years.
Sharing the occasion was Mrs. Pardoe,
who was a speech faculty member from
1934 to the late 1960s, and Mayor Earl
J. Glade of Salt Lake City, formerly a
student and faculty member at BYU.
Dr. Pardoe continued to teach and
served with the Alumni Association un-
til his death in 1971 at age 86. He al-
ways kept track of BYU students in the
armed services. He was BYU's first
tennis coach (1920-28); he organized
and directed the first school radio sta-
tion in the Rocky Mountains, and he
organized and directed the first BYU
European tour.

( Center )

Vivian Hansen, first dean of the BYU
College of Nursing, confers on her
arrival in 1952 with Dr. Vasco M. Tan-
ner, left (chairman of the Zoology De-
partment and coordinator of all health-
related activities), and President Ernest
L. Wilkinson. She served two years,
launching the College with a curriculum,
classrooms, new uniforms, and coordi-
nation for course work in Salt Lake City
and Provo hospitals. Other deans of the
College have been Bernice Chapman,
1954-61; Dr. Beulah Ream Allen, 1961-
65; Linnea Morrison, 1965-67; Elaine
Murphy, 1967-70; and Maxine J. Cope,
since 1970. The College is accredited by
the National League for Nursing.

(Bottom)

The nursing program at BYU at first was
entirely a four-year course leading to the
baccalaureate degree. After their first
year on campus, when the student
nurses were to leave for study in the
LDS Hospital and Primary Children's
Hospital in Salt Lake City, a program

V, J ! I

and reception for them was held in the
Joseph Smith Building auditorium (ac-
companying photograph). In 1963 a
two-year nursing education program
was instituted, designed to prepare
students to become registered nurses.
Under Dean Maxine J. Cope a "ladder
curriculum" was adopted whereby all of
the students complete the two-year pro-
gram for technical work. Those who
wish to go on for professional training
continue at the University two more
years for the baccalaureate degree.
These advanced nurses can make in-
dependent judgments, perform examina-
tions and screenings, make referrals,
and perform service in critical hospital
areas. Such practitioners are valuable
in the expanded medical missionary
program of The Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints.

206

(Top)

After starting in a temporary building
and moving several times, the nursing
program with its laboratories was
finally set up with excellent permanent
facilities in the Joseph F. Smith Family
Living Center.

(Center)

In this 1957 photograph President
Ernest L. Wilkinson, left, studied cam-
pus plans with three of his vice-presi-
dents: Dr. Harvey L. Taylor, William E.
Berrett, and Dr. William F. Edwards.
Formerly superintendent of Mesa, Ari-
zona, schools. Dr. Taylor joined the
BYU administration in 1953 and later
became administrator of Church
Schools. President Berrett, formerly an
attorney, was also vice-administrator of
the Unified Church School System and
in 1963 was named administrator of
Institutes and Seminaries. Dr. Edwards
was dean of the College of Business,
1950-57.

(Bottom)

Ben E. Lewis, former BYU student body
president who joined the BYU adminis-
tration in 1952, worked with Leland
Perry, right, on the spectacular campus
building expansion until 1957, when
Mr. Perry left for a mission. Perry
joined the BYU staff as director of the
Physical Plant in 1947 and after his
mission was a physical plant official at
Ricks College, BYU, and the Church
School System.

207

(Top left)

Ben Lewis, executive vice-president,
and Sam F. Brewster, an international
authority on physical plants who be-
came director of BYU Physical Plant in
1957, were the field generals in the in-
tensive construction campaign. Mr.
Brewster retired in 1974. Since 1952
Ben Lewis has been in charge of the
vast BYU business operation (housing,
food service, financial services, the
physical plant, and others).

(Top right)

Two noted BYU zoologists. Dr. Dorald
M. Allred, left, and Dr. D. Elden Beck,
observe some of the nearly one million
specimens used for instruction and re-
search in BYU collections. From 1959
to 1964 they conducted a study for the
U.S. government of the effects of the
Nevada nuclear bomb tests on the na-
tive animals of that desert region.

(Bottom)

Weaving looms were bought by the
Alumni Association in 1952 as a fi-
nancial aid to students, who wove and
sold fabrics. Observing the loom here
in an upper room of the Eyring Science
Center were: Vice-president William F.

Edwards, far left; Mrs. Ernest L. Wilkin-
son and Mrs. Edwards; Dr. Ariel S.
Ballif (sociology) and Mrs. Ballif; and
President Ernest L. Wilkinson. At far
right is W. Cleon Skousen, then Alumni
Association secretary, who promoted
the idea.

208

(Top)

Wells and Myrle Cloward, who left their
restaurant business in August, 1953, to
take over management of the BYU Food
Services, here watch one of their chefs,
Richard Miller, slice beef for serving in
the Wilkinson Center. Since 1953 the
Clowards have been partners in en-
larging and improving the food service
as the University has grown. Wells
directs the entire operation on campus,
while his wife directs the Wilkinson
Center Food Service administration.
Since 1970 about six million meals have
been prepared on campus during the
fall and winter semesters from Septem-
ber through April, an average of 25,000
meals a day. In fact, the BYU program
is the largest single consolidated food
service organization west of the Mis-
sissippi River. A total of 180 full-time
employees and 575 part-time students
prepare and serve the millions of meals
and service the 352 vending machines
on campus. Both the Cannon Center
and Wilkinson Center have received
Institutions National Award for food
service excellence, while the Food Ser-
vice Division as a whole has received
the School and College Award of Ex-
cellence. Mr. Cloward was awarded the
Association of College and University
Food Service Achievement Award.

(Bottom)

President George H. Brimhall suggested
the establishment of a BYU Women's
group in 1914 and appointed Mrs. El-
bert H. Eastmond to organize it. BYU
Women have operated with vigor since
that time to build sociability, culture,
and University support among the BYU
women employees and wives of faculty
and staff members. This photograph
was taken in about 1960 at a BYU
Women's luncheon meeting in the
Joseph Smith Building ballroom.

209

(Top left)

Twenty-one former presidents of the
BYU Women were present at a meeting
of the group in October, 1954, in the
ballrooms of the Joseph Smith Building.
Present were, front row, left to right:
Elsie C. Carroll, Elma Young, Lorna
Jensen Harrison, Maurine F. Bryner,
Hattie T. Snow, Estelle S. Harris,
Eleanor Berrett; second row: Elizabeth
C. Sauls, Julia T. Marshall, Ivie Gamer
Jensen, Lillian C. Booth, Sarah P.
Worsley, Madelene Sessions, Afton A.
Hansen; third row: Mable H. Clark,

Naomi N. Robertson, Hermese Peter-
son, Belle H. Hales, Margaret Bigelow,
Ruth Christensen, and Fern C. Eyring.

(Top right )

This stainless steel time capsule, fabri-
cated in the shops of the Geneva Steel
Works, was lowered into a concrete
vault on April 30, 1958, near the Smith
Family Living Center, to be opened in
October, 1975, the one hundredth birth-
day of BYU. Supervising the job here
are President Ernest L. Wilkinson, left;
Vice-President Harvey L. Taylor, and
Dean of Students Wesley P. Lloyd. The
capsule contains names of donors to the
Student Destiny Fund and artifacts.

(Bottom)

C. Edwin Dean, left, and Dr. Gary Carl-
son, right, supervise a technician in the
installation of new computer equipment
on December 11, 1967, in the Smoot
Building.

The Brigham Young University Com-
puter Services started in 1958 as the
Computer Research Center in the Mae-
ser Building, then moved at various
times to the Joseph F. Smith Family
Living Center, the Jesse Knight Build-

ing, the Smoot Administration Building
(in 1964), and to its present location in
the James E. Talmage Mathematics and
Computer Science Building in 1971,
each time receiving larger and more
sophisticated equipment. It has grown
to be one of the largest and most ver-
satile centers in the Western United
States.

The addition in 1973 was the big
IBM360/365 computer with forty ter-
minals throughout campus. In all there
were in 1974 more than twenty com-
puters on campus in addition to the big
central center, including a Digital
Equipment Corporation computer in the
Engineering Science and Technology
Building with fifty terminals throughout
campus. These were all part of Com-
puter Services under the direction of Dr.
Gary Carlson. Still, the facilities are not
adequate to keep up with the increasing
need of faculty and students. The com-

puters are in use twenty-four hours a
day, six days a week.

In 1963 Dr. Gary Carlson became
head of the Computer Research Center,
which was reorganized in 1969 into
Computer Services (headed by Dr.
Carlson) and the Computer Science De-
partment— for academic training of
students leading to degrees in the sci-
ence— headed by C. Edwin Dean.
Forty-two departments on campus in-
clude some use of the computers in their
curricula.

The BYU computers can play more
than one hundred games, from chess to
three dimensional tic-tac-toe, and can
solve many business management prob-
lems. They can produce synthetic
sounds of orchestral instruments, trans-
late many foreign languages into En-
glish and back again, work out the most
complicated scientific problems from
research on binary stars to engineering

210

problems to analysis of archaeological
pottery fragments and simultaneously
produce the University's payroll, per-
sonnel records, grade reports, and class
schedules for 25,000 students.

(Top)

The march of the Mormon Battalion,
one of the most heroic and soul-stirring
events in American history, was por-
trayed in a gigantic musical play, "Sand
in Their Shoes," produced in the sum-
mers of 1959 and 1960 in the old BYU
stadium, with a cast of more than 700.
The talents of outstanding BYU artists
were combined in its creation. Dr.
Crawford Gates, composer of the Utah
Centennial production "Promised Val-
ley," composed the score to lyrics by
Don Oscarson, BYU alumnus; and Dr.
Harold I. Hansen, who has produced
the Hill Cumorah Pageant for many
years, was general director. Here Dr.
Gates, left, and Dr. Hansen plan the
production with the use of a model stage.

( Center )

This was a touching scene in "Sand in
Their Shoes," as the men marched
away, leaving the women pioneers alone.
It was presented on this gigantic stage,
only 25 feet short of the entire football
field. The stage was designed by Al
Sensenbach of Stanford University.
Eugene Loring, top choreographer of
Hollywood and Broadway, directed the
dance. Dr. Harvey Fletcher, first dean
of the BYU College of Engineering and
Physical Sciences and father of stereo-
phonic sound, worked out the special
sound system with speakers large
enough for a man to walk into.

(Bottom)

Leads in the dramatic and singing roles
of "Sand in Their Shoes" for the 1960
version of the gigantic musical play
were, front row, left to right: Lorna

Erickson, Patricia Judd, and Ida Lou
Cheney; back row: Lael Woodbury,

Ray Wood, Walter Richardson, and
Wayne Keith.

211

(Top left)

The unmasking of Cosmo the Cougar,
the costumed mascot whose antics make
merriment at all football and basketball
games, is a ritual at the closing basket-
ball game each year. But guess who
emerged from the cougar suit in 1960?
President Ernest L. Wilkinson! He was
aided by Student Body President Rex E.
Lee, right, who in 1971 became the first
dean of the J. Reuben Clark Law School.

(Top right)

Following the whitewashing of the
block Y on Y Day in May, 1953, the
festivities during the afternoon in the
stadium turned to games. This was the
finish of a pie-eating contest between
Colonel Jesse E. Stay, commander of the
first Air Force ROTC unit on campus;
Vivian Hansen, first director of the
School of Nursing (later College of
Nursing); Reed Nielsen, assistant foot-
ball coach; and Dean of Students Wesley
P. Lloyd.

(Center left)

With the rapid growth of BYU came the
need for a security force. President
Wilkinson searched for a chief and in
1952 appointed Captain Leonard E.
Christensen, who at that time was chief
of campus security at the University of
California at Los Angeles, previously
commander of the West Los Angeles
Detective Division. (He was once shot
in the arm in a stakeout of truck hi-
jackers.) At first he was the only se-
curity officer, other than nightwatch-
men, but he built up a force of twenty
trained uniformed officers with am-
bulance, patrol cars, and other equip-
ment, "not to control the students but to
protect them." He served for ten years.

(Center right)

Captain Christensen was succeeded in
1961 by Swen Nielsen (seen here teach-
ing a group in self-defense), formerly a
paratrooper and a Los Angeles City
Police investigator and a teacher in
police science. He built up a sixty-man
BYU operation into one of the model
units in the nation in motivation, or-
ganization, training, equipment, and
ability. He became president of the
nation's campus security directors, and
resigned from BYU in January, 1974, to
become Provo police chief.

(Bottom)

Robert W. Kelshaw, assistant chief, suc-
ceeded Swen Nielsen as BYU chief of
Security Police, with a staff of sixty
employees, including full-time and part-
time officers, traffic clerks, dispatchers,
and secretaries. He has FBI certification
and is a Utah National Guard Military
Police training officer.

212

(Top)

A security officer at work on BYU
campus.

(Center)

This was the Brigham Young University
campus in 1954, early in the administra-
tion of President Ernest L. Wilkinson.
The fieldhouse and stadium are in the
foreground, and the David O. McKay
Building is under construction at the top
of the hill. East of the Eyring Science
Center are the many temporary, war-
surplus building which remained in use
until about 1960. They included the
North Building (E shaped), the Wy-
mount Cafeteria, the Press Building, the
Speech Center, and the cluster of resi-
dences called D-Dorms and Wymount
Village. The first sixteen of the Heritage
halls (top of photo) had just been com-
pleted.

(Bottom)

One of the first major projects pushed
through by President Ernest L. Wilkin-
son in his building campaign was the
Heritage Halls group-living apartments
for women. The name was the winning
suggestion of Kathy Bassett, San Fran-
cisco, and Glenna Rae Mitchell, Lawn-
dale, California, dwellers in one of the
halls. The first sixteen buildings of the
group were built in 1952 and were dedi-
cated with six other buildings on May
26, 1954, by President David O. McKay.
Each of these buildings has ten apart-
ments with six women students per
unit, in which they do their own cook-
ing and housekeeping. All of the build-
ings are named for prominent Latter-
day Saint women.

213

(Top)

A second group of eight Heritage Halls
apartment buildings was constructed in
1956 and dedicated on May 7 , 1957 (in
a group with four other buildings), by
President Joseph Fielding Smith. The
newer units are larger than the first six-
teen, with three floors instead of two,
bringing the total Heritage Halls accom-
modations to 1,536. The cost of the
eight new halls was about two million
dollars, which, added to the cost of the
original sixteen halls, brought the total
to about five million dollars. The archi-
tect was Fred L. Markham, and the
builders were Christiansen Brothers of
Salt Lake City.

(Center)

President Ernest L. Wilkinson greets
two of the noted Latter-day Saint wom-
en for whom two of the Heritage Halls
were named at dedication ceremonies on
May 7, 1957. They are Lavina C. Fugal,
left, American Mother of 1955, school-
teacher, mother of eight, and Church
and civic worker; and Elsie C. Carroll, a
teacher of English at BYU for twenty-
two years, mother of two, poetess, au-
thoress of many stories and articles and
lessons, and worker in professional and
civic organizations.

(Bottom)

This aerial photograph shows the ar-
rangement of the twenty-four Heritage
Halls group-living residences for wom-
en, with Wymount Village, consisting
of temporary war surplus buildings,
beyond.

(Opposite page, top left)

Coeds in the Heritage Halls women's
residences learn cooking, housekeeping,
and personal adjustment. Here it is
dessert time for these six apartment
dwellers (1968): Helen Yazzie, left,

Sanders, Arizona; Penny Hubbard,
Bountiful, Utah; Duchesne Pettet,
Tampa, Florida; Martha Lowry,
Okemos, Michigan; Patty Burton,
Berkeley, California; and at the tele-
phone, Dianne Chryst, Bountiful, Utah.

214

(Top right)

Using a huge press in the Harvey
Fletcher Building, engineering students
test the stress capabilities of various
materials.

(Center)

The Harvey Fletcher Engineering Sci-
ences Laboratory Building was con-
structed in 1953 and added to in 1954
and 1955. It is an H-shaped building
whose four wings originally contained
laboratories of the Civil, Mechanical,
Electrical, and Chemical Engineering
Science Departments. The central core
consists of offices. When the Engineer-
ing Science and Technology Building
was constructed in 1974, the offices and
many of the engineering laboratories
were moved to the new building.

(Bottom)

Herald R. Clark spoke at the ribbon
cutting and opening of the building
named in his honor in March, 1953. It
was dedicated with twenty-two other
buildings on May 26, 1954. Dean Clark,
who had been a student at BYU, joined
the faculty in 1913 as an instructor in
accounting and was dean of the College
of Commerce (later Business) from 1934
to 1951. The Herald R. Clark Building
was paid for largely from profits of the
Bookstore during his managership.
Dean Clark was a member of the lyceum
concert committee from 1913 until his
death in 1966 and was responsible for
an outstanding record of bringing the
world's finest artists and musical or-
ganizations to Provo.

215

(Top)

Although it is not generally known, the
Herald R. Clark Building was originally
constructed as a wing for a new ad-
ministration building. However, just at
that time the campus master plan was
changed, and the structure became an
independent building. It was designed
as a bookstore to serve the fast-growing
student body and served in this capacity
until construction of the Wilkinson
Center in 1965. Also housed in the
building were the campus Post Office,
the Placement Bureau, the Purchasing
Department, the Housing Office, the
Journalism Department, the Student
Coordinator office, student offices,
student publications, the Extension
Division, Audio-Visual Aids, and the
Campus Development Office.

(Center)

The Bookstore (Student Supply) in the
Herald R. Clark Building was jammed
on the day of its opening, March 21,
1953.

(Bottom; opposite page, top)

The LDS Business College and the
McCune School of Music and Art, both
educational institutions of the Church
in Salt Lake City, became branches of
BYU in 1952, but were separated from
the University in 1957. The Business
College, located on the campus of the
old LDS University across the street
from the Temple, was supervised by the
BYU College of Business; and the Mc-
Cune School, operated in the beautiful
old McCune Mansion at First North
and Main Street, came under the pur-
view of the College of Fine Arts. Dur-
ing those years, the McCune School

216

and the BYU Lyceum Committee co-
sponsored many outstanding concerts
in the Salt Lake Tabernacle, such as
Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians,
the Berlin Philharmonic, the New York
Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra,
and The Philadelphia Orchestra. The
Business College continues at present
at its new location at 411 East South
Temple. The McCune School was dis-
continued, and the old mansion was
occupied by the BYU Salt Lake Center
of the Division of Continuing Education.

(Center)

This was the crowd at the ground-
breaking ceremonies for the David O.
McKay Building on March 8, 1954, as
seen from the upper floor of the Eyring
Science Center. Notice there was noth-
ing between the campus and Utah Val-
ley Hospital.

(Bottom)

Church President David O. McKay
views the building which carries his
name. It was begun on March 8, 1954,
and completed nine months later. Dedi-
cation was held on December 14, 1954.
The structure houses the College of
Education and appropriately was named
for President McKay because of his
long service as a teacher — both pro-
fessionally and in the Church.

217

(Top)

President David O. McKay hands Mrs.
McKay the scissors at the ribbon-cutting
ceremonies opening the David O. Mc-
Kay Building. Present also were BYU
President Ernest L. Wilkinson, far left;
President Stephen L Richards, first
counselor in the First Presidency; and
J. Reuben Clark, Jr., second counselor in
the First Presidency.

(Center)

In addition to housing the College of
Education and its many offices, class-
rooms, and laboratories, the David O.
McKay Building is also headquarters for
the language departments, including
modern language laboratories, such as
this one photographed in 1954. The
Department of Asian and Slavic Lan-
guages includes Chinese, Finnish,
Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Thai.
In the Classical, Biblical, and Middle
Eastern Languages are taught Akkadian,
Arabic, Aramaic, Coptic, Egyptian,
Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Syriac, Turkish,
and Ugaritic. Included in other modern
language areas are French, Italian, Ger-
man, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian,
Swedish, Spanish, and Portuguese.

(Bottom)

The Howard S. McDonald Student
Health Center, named for the fifth presi-
dent of BYU, was dedicated on May 7,
1957, with twelve other buildings, by
President Joseph Fielding Smith. When
it first opened, it accommodated the
Health Center on the upper floor and
headquarters of the Air Force ROTC on
the lower floor. It contains a complete
clinic with patient rooms for diagnosis
and treatment of BYU students.

218

MHH

(Top)

The botanical laboratory building was
also dedicated on May 7, 1957, and was
named the Benjamin Cluff, Jr., Plant
Science Laboratory in honor of the third
principal of Brigham Young Academy
and first president of the University.
Located on Eighth North Street between
Fifth and Sixth East, it is used by the
Botany and Range Science, the Agron-
omy, and the Horticulture departments
and contains laboratories, greenhouses,
offices, and classrooms.

(Center)

The Joseph F. Smith Family Living
Center, designed for the promotion of
family life and for professional training
in home sciences, houses the Depart-
ments of Sociology and Psychology, the
College of Nursing, and the College of
Family Living. The cost of the building
was about two million dollars. With
approximately 100,000 square feet of
floor space, it has twenty classrooms,
twenty-eight laboratories, and seventy-
seven offices. The building was de-
signed by Fred L. Markham and was
built by the Christiansen Brothers. It
went into operation for the winter
quarter of 1956 and was dedicated on
May 7, 1957, along with the buildings
just mentioned, by President Joseph
Fielding Smith.

(Bottom)

A novel way to stage a groundbreaking
was introduced on September 29, 1955,
when the dignitaries were lifted by a
huge crane and suspended on a plat-
form in midair for the ceremonies be-
ginning the Joseph F. Smith Family
Living Center.

219

(Top left)

The telephone exchange for the campus
is located in the basement of the Joseph
F. Smith Family Living Center. In the
early days of its operation, when it con-
nected all of the campus housing in
addition to offices and laboratories, it
was the largest private exchange in the
Intermountain area.

(Top right)

This is the Leah D. Widtsoe Multipur-
pose Area in the Joseph F. Smith Family
Living Center, named for the wife of
Elder John A. Widtsoe. Mrs. Widtsoe
took her degree from Brigham Young
Academy in 1899 — Utah's first student
of domestic science — and later assumed
charge of the department. Other spe-
cially named areas in the building are
the Effie Warnick Homemaking Educa-
tion Room, the Marion C. Pfund (dean)
Experimental Food Laboratory, the
Mary W. Hunt Small Dining Room, the
Elizabeth C. Sauls Quantity Food
Laboratory, the May Billings Advanced
Clothing Construction Laboratory, the
Margaret Vilate Elliot History of Cos-
tume Room, and the Zina Y. Williams
Card Free Sewing Laboratory.

(Center)

A feature of the Joseph F. Smith Family
Living Center which has attracted much
attention is the nursery, where univer-
sity students in child development have
opportunity for first-hand observation.
The nursery area also has a system of
one-way glass so that the children can
be observed when not under supervision.

(Bottom)

The Smith Family Living Center is
equipped with the finest facilities for
food science and nutrition, large-quan-
tity cooking, dietetics, clothing and
textiles, child development, family
economics, and home management.

220

The building is also the home of the
College of Nursing and the Department
of Psychology.

(Top left)

Rollo S. Jones, manager, looks over part
of the 643-acre farm south of Spanish
Fork, which BYU acquired in 1957 to
provide experience for students in the
College of Biological and Agricultural
Sciences. Max V. Wallentine is assis-
tant dean and director of the farm. In
addition, there is the Animal Science
Center north of the main campus. On
these farms the students learn how to
cope with problems in weed infestation,
fertility, drainage, irrigation, topog-
raphy, feed production and storage,
animal nutrition and management,
dairy science, record keeping, meat
production, horticulture, and overall
management of a complex farm.

The program is managed mostly for
the education of BYU students, although
other benefits result, such as research
and experimental activities. Also, the
farm produces its own feed, and the
products of the dairy are processed at
the Dairy Products Laboratory near
Deseret Towers for use on campus.

On the big farm the college main-
tains 652 Holstein dairy cattle with 353
milk cows, 100 beef cattle, and 385 head
of swine (Yorkshire and Hampshire).
At the Animal Science Center are a
sheep flock of eighty registered Suf-
folks, about a dozen quarter horses, and
a poultry project with about 15,000
hens in twelve buildings. BYU animals
are consistent blue ribbon winners in
state and national fairs and shows.

In addition there are hay barns,
machine shelters, fruit storage buildings,
lounging sheds, a milking parlor with

a 2,000-gallon automatic cooling tank,
offices, maternity and calf barns, a feed
mill, a 6,000-ton silage pit, a 1,000-
ton vertical silo, and ten homes for
twelve families of faculty and super-
visors. There are also many acres of
alfalfa, corn, barley, and soybeans; five
acres of experimental vegetable crops;
pastureland, orchards, and agronomy
plots; roads, canals, and settling ponds.

Over 400 students are involved in
field-trip programs each year, and 150
or more have major laboratory projects
at the farm each semester. Work-study
internships provide on-the-job experi-
ence and employment for many students.

(Top right)

The heroic-sized statue of Karl G.
Maeser, which was unveiled November
7, 1958, in front of the Eyring Science
Center, was created by Ortho R. Fair-
banks, pioneer Utah artist and BYU art
alumnus, and grandson of John B. Fair-
banks, pioneer Utah artist and BYU art
teacher. The statue was made possible
by Nicholas G. Morgan, left, through
the Nicholas G. Morgan Foundation, in
memory of his mother, Helen M. Mor-
gan, who was a student of Professor
Maeser in the old Twentieth Ward
School in Salt Lake City. Mr. Morgan
said the project was the result of the
suggestion of Bryant S. Hinckley, a
Brigham Young Academy alumnus and
early-day teacher, who said in a devo-
tional assembly in 1955: "I hope to live
to see the day when an heroic statue in
bronze of my beloved teacher and
friend, Karl G. Maeser, is erected on
this campus.”

(Bottom)

This photograph was taken at the in-
stant the drape fell away from the Karl
G. Maeser Statue at the unveiling.

221

(Top)

The initial phase of the Helaman Halls
project in 1958 consisted of building
five residence halls and the central
George Q. Cannon Building. Two addi-
tional residence halls were completed in
1959 and an eighth in 1970. Each of
the halls accommodates 234 students,
two to a room, for a total of 1,872 in the
entire complex.

( Center )

The name Helaman Halls was the result
of a contest, and is taken from a favorite
story in the Book of Mormon in which
the converted Lamanites pledged never
to take up arms against anyone. In-
stead, their 2,000 valiant sons, known
as the "sons of Helaman," went into
battle to protect the Nephites; many
were wounded, but none were killed.
A mural depicting the incident was
painted by Professor Francis Magleby
of the BYU Art Department. It hangs
in the Cannon Center.

(Bottom)

Each of the eight residence buildings in
the Helaman Halls complex has its own
lounge.

222

(Top)

Two large cafeterias and a snack bar,
serving the entire Helaman Hall com-
plex, are located in Cannon Center, as
are the main management office and a
meeting hall for the area. BYU won
a national prize for the operation of this
dining facility.

(Center)

The Jesse Knight Building, named for
the pioneer industrialist who was long a
benefactor of the University, was begun
in May, 1959, and was ready for oc-
cupancy for the 1960 fall semester
classes. Note the Abraham O. Smoot
Administration and General Services
Building, right, under construction.

(Bottom)

Designed to house the College of Busi-
ness, the Jesse Knight Building features
amphitheater lecture rooms, seminar
rooms, and office practice rooms. An
addition to the building on the north
end houses the English and Humanities
departments and a number of large
classrooms.

223

(Top left)

The opening of the Jesse Knight Build-
ing was an important occasion for these
College of Business leaders. Herald R.
Clark, left, was dean of the College
from 1934 to 1950. He died in 1966,
three days before he was to receive
the Honorary Doctor of Arts degree at
commencement exercises for his skillful
handling of the BYU lyceum (concert)
series since 1913. Dr. Weldon J. Taylor,
right, was dean of the College of Busi-
ness from 1957 to 1974 and instituted
many advancements, including a na-
tional advisory council.

(Top right)

Dr. William F. Edwards was dean of the
College of Business from 1950 to 1957,
and was given additional duties as
financial vice-president of the Univer-
sity and of the Unified Church School
System.

(Center)

Recognizing that BYU was a logical
location for motion picture production
to benefit the Church, President Ernest
L. Wilkinson started the program in
1953 with the appointment of Wetzel O.
Whitaker to head the department. Mr.
Whitaker, who had had twenty years of
experience in Hollywood, mostly with
Disney Studios, soon was joined by
other experienced movie men: Frank S.
Wise, filming and editing; Scott Whit-
aker, writing and directing; Robert
Stum, cameraman and art director; and
many others. A small sound stage was
set up behind the Speech Center, and

in its first year the Motion Picture
Production Department produced two
films: The Bishop, President of the

Aaronic Priesthood and Come Back,
My Son. Requests for films to enhance
various programs of the Church then
poured in from many auxiliaries and
organizations, and new studios were
constructed in 1959 in the river bottoms
north of Provo, near primitive woods
and away from traffic. The studio
originally included only the offices and
the first sound stage, seen in this photo-
graph. The second sound stage was
added later.

(Bottom)

Wetzel O. ("Judge") Whitaker was first
director of the BYU Motion Picture

224

Ofl*

Production Department from 1953 to
1974, when he retired and was suc-
ceeded by Jesse Stay.

(Top)

The sound stages of BYU's "Little
Hollywood" are as well equipped as any
in the California film capital. Hundreds
of films have been produced that have
been praised for their highly profes-
sional quality.

(Center)

A disastrous fire swept the BYU Motion
Picture Studios on September 15, 1964,
soon after the completion of the second
sound stage. Firemen said the $500,000
fire got out of hand because of the ex-
plosions from automobiles, which had
been filled with gasoline and parked on
one of the sound stages for a trip the
next day. During the fire the motion
picture staff braved smoke, heat, and
water to rescue all of the exposed foot-
age of ten films under production. Dur-
ing the reconstruction the film makers
continued production in temporary
offices on Lower Campus. The new
buildings were upgraded with better
sound equipment and better fire pro-
tection. Automobile storage, carpentry,
and paint facilities were located in a
separate building.

(Bottom)

The William H. Snell Industrial Educa-
tion Building was designed to fill a
rapidly growing need for more tech-
nicians in the various fields of industry
as well as to train industrial arts teach-
ers. Classwork started in the building
with the opening of the winter quarter,
1960. This was the home of the College
of Industrial and Technical Education
under the Wilkinson administration,
with Ernest C. Jeppsen as dean. The
College later was incorporated into the
College of Engineering and Technology
during the administration of President
Dallin H. Oaks.

225

(Top)

William H. Snell, for whom the Indus-
trial Education Building was named,
instructs a drafting student. Snell
served the University for nearly half a
century, beginning in 1915, teaching
mechanical arts, engineering subjects,
mechanical drawing, and drafting, and
serving as superintendent of buildings
and grounds during the 1940s.

(Center)

In 1972 Dean Ernest C. Jeppsen, center,
presented honor plaques from national
manufacturing engineers and engineer-
ing technology organizations to faculty
members Dr. Dell K. Allen, left, and
Dr. Ross J. McArthur. Dean Jeppsen
served BYU for fourteen years as di-
rector of the Technical Institute, dean
of the General College, and dean of the
College of Industrial and Technical
Education, helping to bring the latter to
national leadership in the field.

(Bottom)

One of the most interesting contests in
the annual search for the Belle of the Y
was the cake-baking contest, which
proved a young lady as a homemaker as
well as a beauty with dancing and
artistic talent. BYU coeds who won top
honors in the cake contest in 1950 were
June Peterson, left, Lavonne Thomander,
LaVon Brown, Pearlyne Crowley, and
Maridell Lewis.

226

(Top)

Feathers, leather, flashing batons, and
pretty smiles were the trademarks of the
vivacious Call sisters — Geneva, Anita,
and Gaynell — who were the delight of
crowds at football and basketball games
and parades in the early 1950s.

(Bottom)

Organized yells and cheers were first
introduced to the campus during the
administration of President Benjamin
Cluff, Jr., in the 1890s. Since that time
each year has produced its team of
cheerleaders, each bringing new rou-
tines to arouse the assembled students
to greater output of noise. The "yell
kings," as they were named, in 1952
were Kent Walker, Boyd Busath, Harold
Empey, Barry Bright, and DeVon Fife.

227

(Top)

The Cougarettes, the girls' fancy march-
ing group, in the George Albert Smith
Fieldhouse in 1953.

(Bottom)

The Cougarettes in the George Albert
Smith Fieldhouse in 1970.

228

(Top)

On May 20, 1953, the Bricker and
Tausig social units competed in a tug-
of-war through a firehose stream south
of the Eyring Science Center. (Note the
Student Health Center in a temporary
war surplus building.)

( Center )

With one exception, the wearing of
slacks by women on BYU campus was
unheard of until 1971. That exception
was the annual senior trek which, dur-
ing the 1950s and 1960s, was always
held the day before commencement.
The seniors took a last nostalgic tour of
the campus — a tour which sometimes
even included exploring extensive
underground passages — and the walk
ended with individuals ringing the Old
Y Bell. This photograph was taken on
June 4, 1954, of a senior group on its
final reminiscent promenade.

( Bottom )

In the early 1950s, freshmen were re-
quired to wear cat ears, whiskers, a tail,
and a beanie, and to perform certain
menial tasks for seniors, such as shining
shoes or carrying books. All of this was
a holdover from the Harris and Mc-
Donald administrations, when hazing
of freshmen was carried out in earnest.
In this 1952 photo freshmen Kathy
Redd and Gilbert Weiss, properly made
up like cats, are barred from the front
door by upperclassman Jacob Hamblin.
These traditions were later dropped.

229

(Top)

Hazing of freshmen early in the Wilkin-
son administration soon gave way to
helpfulness, and the new students were
eased into the demanding college life by
orientation and counseling. Upper-
classmen, such as David Forsyth, Uni-
verse editor, in this 1953 photograph
conducts students on tours of the cam-
pus and instructs them in traditions and
policies.

(Center)

Brigham Young University students,
left, and Utah State University students,
right, struggle for possession of the Old
Wagon Wheel, symbol of football
supremacy between the two schools
before the game in 1953. The tradition
dates back to 1949.

(Bottom)

The annual Heber J. Grant Oratorical
Contest was established in 1920, soon
after Dr. T. Earl Pardoe organized the
Department of Speech and Dramatic
Arts, and has continued to the present.
It always has been held near November
22, the birthday of President Grant, and
during the 1950s and 1960s was the
feature of a student body assembly in
the George Albert Smith Fieldhouse.
The winner in 1954 was Rex E. Lee, left,
who received a book of scripture from
Clifford Young. Mrs. Kathryn Pardoe
was in charge of the contest that year.
In 1971 Rex Lee became the first dean
of the J. Reuben Clark Law School at
BYU.

230

(Top left)

Student body officers, American Indians,
Polynesians, and foreign students wel-
comed bishops and stake presidents to
the annual Bishops' and Stake Presi-
dents' Day program in the Fieldhouse
in 1958. Student Body President Webb
Crockett is at far left. The annual event
began in 1957 to coincide with the
general conference of The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and to
bring the Church leaders to campus for
a look at "their” university and for re-
unions with BYU students from their
home areas. The programs have in-
cluded musical concerts, performances
by traveling talent groups, dramatiza-
tions, lectures, question-and-answer
sessions, luncheons, and tours of the
campus.

(Top right)

This appealing team of majorettes in the
1950s included Zelma Crider, VeNae
Bryan, Dona Willardson, Kay Carroll,
and Karolyn Langford.

(Center)

This photograph was published in 1953
to illustrate proper dress for the Junior
Prom. In her beautiful evening gown
(with covered shoulders) is Edith Taylor,
who receives gifts and attentions from
DeVon Fife, left, in tuxedo; Barry Was-
den, in white dinner jacket; Dick Row-
berry, in tuxedo; and Ted Johnson, in
military uniform.

(Bottom)

BYU students, joined by some Univer-
sity of Utah student body officers, do
the "bunny hop" in the Joseph Smith
Building ballroom following a basket-
ball game on February 14, 1953.

231

(Top)

The annual High School Journalism
Conference, sponsored by the BYU
Journalism Department (later Com-
munications), was started by Depart-
ment Chairman Harrison R. Merrill in
1935 and has been held annually since
that time. As shown by this photo of
the 1950s, it attracted (and still at-
tracts) hundreds of advisers and stu-
dent editors, reporters, photographers,
and advertising managers from high
schools in Utah and surrounding states
to a one-day conference to assist them
with their publications. The Com-
munications Department also sponsors
a week-long publications workshop
before the opening of schools each fall.

(Center)

The favorite dance of the students in the
1950s and early 1960s was the "Lindy"
and variations of it, in which the part-
ners held hands but swung away from
each other and back again.

(Bottom)

The annual Homecoming Parade in
downtown Provo is one of the largest in
Utah. This was the scene in 1952.

232

(Top)

Delta Phi's winning sweepstakes float
of the 1952 Homecoming, bearing the
week's theme of "A Y's Promise," is
brought into the stadium during the
halftime of the football game, a 23-14
Cougar victory over the Denver Pioneers.

(Center)

Throughout the years a feature of
Homecoming has been the decorating
of campus residence halls. In 1968 this
Heritage Halls building was decorated
to resemble a theater with its marquee
and publicity panels. The theme for the
event that year was "Cast a Cougar
Shadow."

(Bottom)

For several years in the late 1960s a
feature of Homecoming was the "Turtle
Trot," the racers sponsored by various
campus organizations. Unpacking the
contestants for the 1968 derby are Dale
Gurney, Lyndon Britt, Barbara Babb,
Mava Whicker, and Mary Ann Westfall.

233

(Top)

The fellows entered into the carnival
spirit of Homecoming in 1968 by stag-
ing a "Mud Bowl" battle in the ooze
near Helaman Halls. It was between . . .
uh . . . well, obviously they are un-
identified.

(Bottom)

In 1968 students attracted nationwide
attention to BYU Homecoming by con-
structing the "largest cake in the world"
— five feet high, six feet wide, forty feet
long, and weighing six tons. BYU stu-
dents baked the 6,000 separate one-
layer yellow cakes from packaged cake
mixes which were distributed to anyone
who wished to bake one of the "build-
ing blocks" for the huge confection.
Crews bound the cakes together with
white icing prepared in large vats, and
they were then lifted in sections onto
the bed of a mammoth flatbed truck.
After appearing in the Homecoming
parade, the gigantic pastry was dis-
tributed to fans at the BYU-Texas at
El Paso football game.

234

(Top left )

The year 1969 produced a bumper crop
of stunts for Homecoming, including a
wrestling tiger and ostrich races.

(Top right)

Representative of Homecoming queens
in the 1950s was Diane Stevenson, who
reigned in 1957.

(Bottom left)

A sparkling finale to Homecoming ac-
tivities every year since 1951 has been
the "Frolics," a fast-moving variety
show of student talent, which has been
described as the equal of professional
stage shows. The event was called the
"Fieldhouse Frolics" when the Field-
house was the scene of the performances,
but the name was changed simply to

the "Frolics" in 1972 when the extrava-
ganza was moved to the Marriott Center.
This scene shows the Young Am-
bassadors in the 1973 Frolics, the year
they completed a highly successful tour
of South America.

(Bottom right)

Colonel Jesse E. Stay, left, first com-
mandant of the BYU Air Force ROTC
unit when it was organized in the sum-
mer of 1951, supervises Captain Charles
Moran in unpacking musical instru-
ments for the unit's band. The unit was
established after President Ernest L.
Wilkinson called a meeting of all male
students and faculty members in the
Joseph Smith Building, where he ex-
plained the proposal to organize the
Reserve Officer Training Corps on

campus and received an overwhelming
affirmative vote. About a hundred stu-
dents signed up during that summer's
preliminary session, and more than
1,100 registered for ROTC in the first
regular term in the fall of 1951. After
retirement. Colonel Stay returned to
BYU to work in the Motion Picture
Production Department and became its
director in 1974.

235

(Top left)

Sergeant William H. Burton, a staff
member when the Air Force ROTC unit
was first established at BYU in the
summer of 1951, had his problems when
he tried to outfit the BYU cadet corps.
Here he measures the feet of a prospec-
tive cadet and finds they are of con-
siderable size. A great number of the
uniforms for the new unit had to be re-
ordered because the BYU students had
"bigger feet, longer arms, and broader
shoulders."

(Top right)

When the ROTC boys began marching
on campus in 1951, it did not take the
girls long to become involved, and they
organized a Sponsor Corps called
"Angel Flight." A women's Sponsor
Corps also was organized with the Army
ROTC unit in 1968. Through the years
these groups have taken a lion's share
of drill and activity honors at national
conclaves. This photograph of the
Angel Flight was taken in a 1952 parade.

(Center)

Soon after the establishment of the Air
Force ROTC unit on campus, an ROTC
male chorus was organized, later called
the Footprints, made up of Air Force
ROTC cadets and girls from the Angel
Flight sponsor group. They perform
musical and variety programs and often
go on talent tours.

(Bottom)

These straight shooters were part of the
Angel Flight rifle team in 1962.

BE SURI

0* «•
TAnen

f"""* 1

l BE SURE!

J -JIT.-

I O* TOV* 5

I RIGHT*

236

(Top left)

First commandant of the BYU Army
ROTC unit was Colonel David R. Lyon,
who reported for duty in February,
1968. He had attended the Command
and General Staff College and received
the Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star,
the Army Commendation Medal, the
Distinguished Unit Citation, and the
Republic of Korea President Unit Cita-
tion. Within two years the BYU unit
enrolled 509 cadets, the largest volun-
teer Army ROTC unit in the West.
Colonel Lyon retired from the Army in
August, 1972, and joined the BYU Uni-
versity Relations staff.

(Top right)

The Army ROTC unit was established
on campus in 1968 as a companion unit
to the Air Force ROTC, and together
they have become one of the largest
ROTC contingents in the Western
United States. Since their establish-
ment through 1974 the Air Force ROTC
unit commissioned 1,193 cadets as
officers, and the Army ROTC com-
missioned 462.

(Bottom)

At weekly retreats all Air Force and
Army ROTC personnel assemble on the
Smoot Building quad for lowering of
the colors.

237

(Top)

Since the 1961 opening of the Abraham
O. Smoot Building, the raising of the
American flag every morning and the
lowering of it every evening by ROTC
cadets have been a tradition at BYU.
During the campus disorders of the late
1960s and early 1970s, when the flag
was being burned and desecrated at
some schools, this tradition at BYU took
on added significance and attracted
national attention. This photograph
was taken at a special flag ceremony on
May 9, 1961, on the occasion of a visit
from Church President David O. McKay.
Note that the Ernest L. Wilkinson Cen-
ter had not yet been constructed.

(Center)

The Army and Air Force ROTC spon-
sor units accepted the responsibility of
promoting and assisting with the regu-
lar blood drives on BYU campus. Here
a Red Cross nurse draws blood from a
student donor. Blood drives at BYU
always proved very successful, recruit-
ing large numbers of donors.

(Bottom)

Upon recommendation of President
Ernest L. Wilkinson, the Brigham Young
University Stake, the 225th in The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints, was organized on campus with
twelve wards on January 8, 1956. Its
membership was made up almost en-
tirely of BYU students, with the ex-
ception of some faculty members and
townspeople as officers. The establish-
ment of the new stake was conducted
in sessions in the George Albert Smith
Fieldhouse by Elders Henry D. Moyle
and Adam S. Bennion of the Council of
the Twelve Apostles. Antone K. Rom-
ney, center, was named president of the
new stake, with Daniel D. Bushnell,
left, as first counselor and Joseph T.
Bentley, right, as second counselor.
Fred A. Schwendiman, front left, was
set apart as stake clerk, and Fred E.
Guymon as assistant clerk. The new
stake replaced the former three branches
on campus (Campus, Campus North,
and Wymount).

238

(Top)

Bishops of the twelve wards forming the
original BYU Stake of the Church were
named on January 8, 1956, the day the
stake was organized. The bishops were,
front row, left to right: Joseph N.

Symons, Raymond E. Beckham, Clyde
D. Sandgren, Frank W. Kilpack, Royal
Stone, Wayne B. Hales; second row: A.
Lester Allen, Melvin Brooks, William G.
Dyer, Charles M. Taylor, B. West Bel-
nap, and Russell Lewis.

(Center)

Growth of the University and the
Church organizations on campus re-
quired the division of the original cam-
pus stake of the Church into eight stakes
in 1960 and ten stakes in 1969. Later
the wards were changed to branches;
there were 116 branches on campus in
1974. The campus appears to be as
busy on Sundays as on weekdays, as the
branches and stakes hold services.
Classrooms, lecture halls, theaters, and
recital halls all become chapels filled
with students.

(Bottom)

In the summer of 1960, school and
Church officials visited the Stela 5 (Tree
of Life) stone at ancient Izapa near
Tapachule, Mexico, on an inspection
tour of excavations and research by the
BYU-New World Archaeological Foun-
dation. With a native boy guide were,
left to right: BYU President Ernest L.
Wilkinson; Daniel Taylor, director of
LDS Schools in Mexico; Elders Mark E.
Petersen and Marion G. Romney of the
Council of the Twelve Apostles; and
Joseph Bentley, BYU treasurer and
former mission president in Mexico.

239

r ^ "

i «

(Top)

The Board of Trustees held its meeting
in the Christen Jensen Conference Room
of the Smoot Administration Building in
1962, one of the few board meetings
conducted on BYU campus. The mem-
bers assembled were, clockwise from
left: Elders Mark E. Petersen, Delbert
L. Stapley, Marion G. Romney, LeGrand
Richards, Richard L. Evans, Howard W.
Hunter, Gordon B. Hinckley, N. Eldon
Tanner, Marion D. Hanks, A. Theodore
Tuttle, John H. Vandenberg, Joseph
Fielding Smith, Hugh B. Brown, and
Harold B. Lee, with BYU President
Ernest L. Wilkinson and Clyde D. Sand-
gren, secretary.

(Bottom)

Dr. Stewart Grow (political science)
represented the faculty in presenting a
gift of a silver tray to President and
Mrs. Ernest L. Wilkinson in 1964,
when President Wilkinson resigned to
run for the U.S. Senate. He returned as
president of BYU after an unsuccessful
campaign.

240

(Top left)

Dr. Earl C. Crockett served as acting
president during 1964 while President
Ernest L. Wilkinson ran for the U.S.
Senate. He came to BYU in 1957 from
the University of Colorado, where he
was chairman of the Department of
Social Sciences and assistant to the vice-
president, and served eleven years as
academic vice-president at BYU. In
1968 he took a year's leave of absence
to teach in the University of Maryland's
Overseas Program in Europe, then re-
turned to teach economics at BYU. Dr.
Crockett was instrumental, with Presi-
dent Wilkinson, in establishing the
Honors Program for superior scholars,
faculty research fellowships, doctoral
degree programs, two-year associate de-
grees in nursing, industrial technology,
general studies, and the semester system.

(Top right)

Dr. Ernest L. Wilkinson won his Cougar
athletic blanket and passed a physical

fitness test at the same time at a BYU-
Arizona basketball game in the George
Albert Smith Fieldhouse on March 2,
1964. The Elks Lodge, which annually
awards block Y blankets to graduat-
ing football and basketball players,
presented a blanket to Dr. Wilkinson
(who was then a candidate in the U.S.
Senate race), but first made him give a
demonstration of his athletic ability.
He promptly removed his jacket and
did forty-seven pushups while the
cheering students led by Cosmo the
Cougar counted. "I could have done
more," he said, "but I had already done
my exercises earlier in the day."

(Bottom left )

A couple of cougars met on BYU cam-
pus on October 22, 1965 — one of the
BYU variety, President Ernest L. Wil-
kinson, and a real one named "Sparrow."

paleobotany, has gathered one of the
world's outstanding collections of
65,000 fossilized plants, evidence of a
lush, broad-leaf forest that once existed
in a tropical environment where now
lies the dry desert of the Mountain
West. Here he examines Sanmiguelia
plant fossils, which possibly could be
the oldest flowering plant known to
man. The fossil was found in southwest
Colorado in 1971. Aiding him are
graduate students Dan Simper and
Naomi Hebbert. His sensational dis-
coveries while scouring the deserts and
mountains of six states include fig
leaves, ferns, and water lilies. In 1974
with some of his students he discovered
fossils of the tempskya tree fern in the
rare standing position.

(Bottom right)

Dr. William D. Tidwell, specialist in

241

(Top)

Dr. James Jensen (in helmet), curator of
the BYU Earth Sciences Museum, with
Eddie and Vivian Jones of Delta, Colo-
rado, measures the eight-foot scapula
(shoulder blade) of the world's largest
dinosaur, discovered by the trio near
Delta at Dry Mesa in 1972. The world-
famous paleontologist, who has made
numerous discoveries (including the
oldest dinosaur eggs in the Western
Hemisphere and a dicynodont skull in
Antarctica), uncovered the fossilized
bones of the largest sauropod ever found
and the bones of a meat-eating dinosaur
twice the size of any previously un-
earthed for that period — two of seven
new species discovered at the site.

The work in Dr. Jensen's quarry
(which he calls a "bone hole"), where
huge "packages" of bones weighing
many tons were removed, was filmed by
KBYU-TV and BBC, and was shown
throughout the United States and
Europe.

Dr. Jensen came to BYU in 1962 from
Harvard University, where he was a
member of the museum staff. At BYU
he participated with a Harvard expedi-
tion to the Andes Mountains of South
America, where valuable discoveries
were made. He brought to BYU nu-
merous skills (weight suspension, iron
work, and artistry) which have served
him well in collecting the giant fossils
and mounting them in a lifelike way
that has become world famous. Also a
gifted artist, he helped earn his living as
a painter when the family lived in
Alaska. BYU conferred on him the
Honorary Doctor of Science degree in
1971, and in 1973 he was awarded the
Golden Plate award by the American
Academy of Achievement in Chicago.

(Center)

During the 1960s, with the student
body ranging from 20,000 to 25,000, it

was impossible for all of the students to
work on the block letter; consequently,
the Y Day activities spread to the com-
munity, and students helped to clean up
parks, swimming pools, cemeteries, and
golf courses and to paint up and fix up
homes of needy persons. Here Presi-
dent Ernest L. Wilkinson, wearing a
painter's cap labeled "Y Community
Day," gets into the spirit of the occasion
with student officer Cam Caldwell.

(Bottom)

Church President David O. McKay,
assisted by Sam F. Brewster, director of
the Physical Plant Department, and
BYU President Ernest L. Wilkinson,
prepares to cut the ribbon to open the
Campus Drive in September, 1960.

242

1957, and BYU acquired his entire art
estate in 1963, mainly through the ef-
forts of Dean Herald R. Clark. It was
from this collection that the cast was
previously taken.

(Top right)

Underpass to the Fieldhouse and the
Richards Building, completed in 1961.

(Center)

When the old Wymount Village war
surplus buildings were removed from
campus, a new housing project, Wy-
mount Terrace, was constructed to pro-
vide residences for families of married
students. Construction was started in
August, 1961, by Tolboe and Harlin
Construction Company, with plans de-
signed by Smith and Needham, archi-
tects. The project includes twenty-four
residence buildings with 462 apart-
ments in one-, two-, and three-bedroom
styles. It occupies twenty-seven acres
northeast of the main campus.

(Bottom)

The crowd was small, but the occasion
was important — the groundbreaking
for the new Abraham O. Smoot Admin-
istration and General Services Building
on October 12, 1959.

(Top left)

This photograph was taken at Home-
coming on November 4, 1961, in front
of the Smoot Administration and Gen-
eral Services Building, immediately
after Richard W. Young, a grandson of
Brigham Young, had unveiled the heroic
statue of the great Church president,
prophet, colonizer, and founder of Brig-
ham Young University. The bronze

statue is seven and one-half feet high,
weighs 1,300 pounds, and stands on a
four-foot stone cube weighing 7,000
pounds. The work was cast from the
plaster original created by the late
Mahonri Young for the This Is the Place
Monument at the entrance to Emigra-
tion Canyon in Salt Lake City. Mahonri
Young, famous American sculptor and
grandson of Brigham Young, died in

243

(Top)

The Abraham O. Smoot Building was
designed in an X shape by Architect
Henry P. Fetzer. It includes 100,000
square feet of floor space and has about
250 offices. Originally, the building
housed not only the University adminis-
trative offices but also the offices for
the entire Unified Church School Sys-
tem, which later were moved to Salt
Lake City and to other areas on campus.
Included in the building are the offices
and business areas for the University
president and vice-presidents, the De-
velopment Office, the Graduate School,
Admissions and Records, Housing,
Financial Services, Personnel Services,
Security, University Relations, the Dean
of Student Life, and others. It was dedi-
cated on October 10, 1962, one year
after it had opened for use.

(Center)

The Physical Plant Building brought
together for the first time all the offices
and functions of the Physical Plant De-
partment. The building was begun on
December 15, 1961, completed on Sep-
tember 21, 1962, and dedicated on Octo-
ber 10, 1962, by Elder Hugh B. Brown.
It has 82,327 square feet of floor space,
with a paved central court and paved
outer courts totaling 48,273 additional
square feet. It houses all the offices,
shops, garages, and the storage for the
maintenance of the campus. In August,
1974, it was named in honor of Sam F.
Brewster, who had served as head of the
department for seventeen years during
a period of the University's rapid growth.

(Bottom)

The Alumni House, located on the brow
of the hill at the west edge of campus,
was started in March, 1961, and dedi-
cated at services in the Joseph Smith
auditorium on May 25, 1962. It houses
business offices of the BYU Alumni
Association and serves as a reception
center for alumni, numbering 80,000 at
the time the building opened.

244

(Top left)

A big boiler was moved into place on
August 24, 1965, during construction of
an addition to the heating plant to ser-
vice the fast-growing campus.

(Top right)

The first six halls of Deseret Towers
were completed in 1965; the seventh
was added later. Each has six stories of
dormitory-type rooms, twenty double
rooms and four single rooms to a floor.
The ground floor contains the head resi-
dent's apartment, a lounge, and three
double rooms for six students. The
cluster houses 2,038 students, and the
area is served by cafeterias and by ad-
ministrative offices in the George Q.
Morris Center. The first six halls were
dedicated on October 6, 1970, by Elder
Ezra Taft Benson, although they were
completed in 1965.

125^5

-eZ

iwiil'f-*

(Bottom left)

Buildings of the Deseret Towers com-
plex were constructed by the lift-slab
method, in which all of the concrete
floors and the ceilings are poured on the
ground, like a giant sandwich, then
hoisted into place by hydraulic jacks
and secured.

(Bottom right)

This photograph, taken from the top of
the Ernest L. Wilkinson Center, shows
the proximity of Deseret Towers to
Heritage Halls.

245

(Top left )

On August 24, 1967, an atomic reactor
in a crate was hoisted up the hillside
south of the Grant Building and in-
stalled in an old concrete room that had
served as a heating plant. The reactor
went into operation the following month
as the critical stage of atomic reaction
was reached.

(Top right)

For three days technicians of the BYU
Physics Department and Atomics Inter-
national, who built the reactor for BYU,
moved the atomic fuel in small amounts
to the reactor to prevent rapid buildup
of atomic energy in the reactor. BYU
scientists who supervised the installa-
tion and kept watchful eyes on the dials
were Dr. Max Hill and Dr. Gary Jensen.

(Center)

Construction began on the three-story
Thomas L. Martin Building and the
nine-story John A. Widtsoe Building in
July, 1968. The Martin Building was
completed in the summer of 1969, and
the Widtsoe Building a year later. To-
gether they form the Life Sciences
Center. They were dedicated with
thirty-five other buildings on October 6,
1970. The Martin Building has four
lecture halls seating 254 students each,
four seating ninety each, five seating
seventy-five, three seating sixty, and
eight seating forty. The Widtsoe Build-
ing (two stories underground and seven
above) contains faculty offices and life
sciences laboratories. Large salt water
and fresh water aquaria are located on
the lower floor.

246

(Opposite page, bottom )

Landlocked Brigham Young University
has an outstanding collection of marine
animals in more than forty tanks in the
Widtsoe Building, tanks simulating the
animals' ocean home through the use of
distilled water mixed with synthetic sea
salt. Here Glynis Crow, a secretary in
the Zoology Department, examines a
sea urchin from one of the tanks. The
marine collection also includes sea
anemones, horseshoe crabs, spider and
cancer crabs, gastropods, sea stars,
feather worms, coral, tube worms, key-
hole limpets, sharks, and many others.

(Top left)

The Indoor Tennis Courts Building,
located just south of the George Albert
Smith Fieldhouse, was completed in the
fall of 1968. It includes four regulation-
size tennis courts and bleachers for
year-round use. With a ceiling clearance
of 40 feet, the construction provides for
unobstructed play.

(Top right)

Instrumental in the construction of the
Indoor Tennis Courts Building were Dr.
Milton F. Hartvigsen, dean of the
College of Physical Education, left, and
tennis coach Wayne Pearce.

(Bottom)

The University Press and Stores Build-
ing was one of three auxiliary services
buildings constructed in 1968 on the
north side of campus. The other two
are the Laundry and the Auxiliary Sup-
plies Building. Half of the big press
building (shown here) is occupied by
the Stores Department.

247

■

(Top)

Excitement but not extensive damage
occurred during the construction of the
University Press and Stores Building
when mastic adhesive being applied to
a refrigerator room flashed and burned.

(Center)

The sheet-fed letterpress equipment
used in the old war-surplus press build-
ing was replaced by this modern offset
web-perfecting press in the new Univer-
sity Press Building, resulting in fast
reproduction of newspapers, magazines,
books, and brochures.

(Bottom)

Dedicated by Elder Boyd K. Packer with
three other buildings on April 29, 1969,
was the Daniel H. Wells Building, de-
signed to house the Air Force and Army
ROTC offices. It was named in honor
of the Mormon pioneer, soldier, civic
leader, and counselor to Brigham Young.
Wells was a member of the Board of
Trustees of the University of the City of
Nauvoo, a lieutenant general in the
Nauvoo Legion, commander of the
militia in the Indian Wars from 1850 to
1867 and in the Echo Canyon War in
1857. He later became mayor of Salt
Lake City.

248

(Top)

The Faculty Office Building, with 16,061
square feet of floor space, was com-
pleted in 1968 and dedicated by Elder
Ezra Taft Benson on October 6, 1970.
It is located on a narrow strip of land
immediately above the old stadium, and
some of the former stadium hilltop
structures were incorporated into the
building. The entire building is on one
floor, and its floor plan provides many
offices for faculty and secretaries.

(Center)

The MIA Girls Home, where for over
forty years thousands of teenagers from
Utah County have spent their vacations,
was purchased by BYU as a conference
retreat in June, 1970. Its name was
changed to Timp Lodge. The lodge is
scheduled year-round for seminars,
workshops, conferences, and social
activities. It is located in the north fork
of Provo Canyon, near the Sundance
resort and the BYU Alumni family camp
at Aspen Grove.

(Bottom)

Construction of the new Brigham Young
University library began in July, 1959.
The building was completed in Septem-
ber, 1961, and was dedicated by Presi-
dent Hugh B. Brown on October 10,
1962. Originally named the J. Reuben
Clark, Jr., Library, its name was changed
in January, 1974, to the Harold B. Lee
Library in honor of President Lee, who
died the previous month. President
Clark's name was transferred to the new
Law School Building. The Library con-
tains 205,000 square feet of floor space
on five floors (two of them are under-
ground). Each floor of more than 40,000
square feet is larger than the old Heber
J. Grant Library. Walls are constructed
of precast stone in three values of pink-
ish brown, with Aztec motif in each
panel. Windows were kept to a mini-
mum to eliminate problems of heat and
humidity control.

249

(Top)

This is not a cemetery but the structural
steel work for the Harold B. Lee Library,
as seen in 1960 when under construction.

( Center )

There are canyons of card catalogs on
the main floor of the Library. The build-
ing was planned to accommodate a
million volumes. During the summer of
1961, 330,000 volumes were moved to
the new building from the old Heber J.
Grant Library, the Eyring Science Cen-
ter Library, the McKay Building Re-
serve Library, the Life Sciences Library,
from several other storerooms on cam-
pus, and from downtown storage. How-
ever, by 1974 the collection had ex-
ceeded 1,200,000 and plans had been
started for an addition to the Harold B.
Lee Library which would more than
double its size. There are also special
rooms for microfilms of newspapers
and documents and for maps, Braille
books for blind students, private study
spaces, council rooms, and a typing
room.

(Bottom)

Unlike earlier libraries that had large
central reading rooms, the Harold B.
Lee Library has open stacks, accessible
to students on a self-help basis, and
study areas alongside the stacks.

250

(Top left )

The circulation desk in the Harold B.
Lee Library, where students and faculty
check out and return books.

(Top right)

A globe more than six feet in diameter
is a central attraction in the Library.

(Center)

This is the beautiful browsing room on
the main floor of the Library.

(Bottom)

The listening library in the Harold B.
Lee Library, where tapes and records
are played in a central control room,
and students listen with earphones at
listening stations.

251

(Top)

The change of the name of the Library
from the J. Reuben Clark, Jr., Library to
the Harold B. Lee Library was an-
nounced by President Marion G. Rom-
ney on January 15, 1974, at an assembly
in the Marriott Center. Before the as-
sembly was over, new signs had been
erected in front of the building. In-
specting one of the signs are Mrs. Lee,
left; Mrs. Brent Goates, President Lee's
daughter; President Romney; and BYU
President Dallin H. Oaks.

(Bottom)

A focal point for color and excitement,
the new football stadium located at 1600
North on Canyon Road was completed
for the season of 1964. A substantial
amount of donated labor, equipment,
and materials made the project possible.
The stadium is of all-steel construction
with a seating capacity of about 33,000
— 4,800 of which are chair seats. A
rubberized track encloses the football
field. Team dressing rooms, storage
areas, food preparation and vending
facilities, and restrooms are located
under the stadium seating. Parking for
over 10,000 cars is provided in asphalt
parking lots near the stadium. Forty-
two ticket gates handle crowds rapidly.

Architectural plans were prepared by
Fred L. Markham. After the site was
prepared by donated labor, the con-
struction was contracted to Tolboe
Construction Company and Pittsburgh-
DesMoines Steel Company of Provo.
The steel for the stadium was produced
at the Geneva Works of the United
States Steel Corporation.

252

(Top)

With the approval of the Board of
Trustees, school officials met with 120
business, professional, political, and
labor leaders to plan a fund-raising
drive for the new stadium. A goal of
$800,000 toward the estimated cost of
$1,500,000 (later revised to $2,000,000)
was set for community support. The
University provided the land (an apple
orchard), and costs above the public
pledges came from student building fees
and other sources. Money was raised
by inviting donors to sponsor seats at
$200 each, and a small metal plate bear-
ing the name of the sponsor was placed
on the back of each seat so sponsored.
The Steering Committee for the fund
drive included, front row: Joseph T.

Bentley, Dr. DaCosta Clark (chairman),
Edwin Butterworth, Dr. Richard Call;
second row: Harold Smith, Lavere M.
Tippetts, LeRoy Johnson, Dale Peter-
son, Edwin Kimball, Paul Thorn, Ray
Beckham, Howard Maycock; back row:
Kenneth McTavish, Howard Pace, Dr.
Ariel Ballif, Clyde Weeks, and Charles
Peterson.

(Bottom)

The pvessbox at the top of the old hill-
side stadium was little more than a
shed.

253

(Top left)

Crowds fill the stadium to take in the
excitement and pageantry of football
and track and field competition.

(Top right)

A new and larger pressbox with at-
tractive stained wood replaced the
shed-like structure at the top of the old
hillside stadium.

(Center)

The pressbox in the new all-steel
stadium includes a lower deck for the
president's box and three decks above
for 120 radio, television, newspaper,
and wire service newsmen, plus booths
for visitors, scouts, spotters, timekeep-
ers, scoreboard operators, and statis-
ticians.

(Bottom)

Card stunts and the "Incomparable
Cougar Band" provide thrilling half-
time fare in the new stadium.

254

(Top left)

David Boyack, 1964 student vice-
president of the Social Office, super-
vised installation of the white, precast
stone block "Y" at the north end of the
new all-steel stadium. The center of the
letter is equipped with a gas jet which is
lighted in each pregame ceremony by
some distinguished person who has
given outstanding service to the Uni-
versity.

(Top right)

The Franklin S. Harris Fine Arts Center,
dedicated on April 3, 1965, brought
together in one magnificent building
facilities for all the performing arts
which previously had been scattered
over the campus. It eliminated, for
example, the war-surplus structures
housing the Speech Center; with five
theaters and concert halls it brought an
end to the theater functions of the old
College Hall and the Joseph Smith
auditorium; and the Music Department
moved from Lower Campus into its vast
new facilities. The center was designed
by William L. Pereira and Associates of
Los Angeles. Mr. Pereira said, "It is the
most comprehensive center of its kind
ever commissioned by an American
university."

(Center)

President Hugh B. Brown of the First
Presidency of the Church arrives on
June 27, 1962, for the groundbreaking
ceremonies of the Franklin S. Harris
Fine Arts Center, accompanied by BYU
Vice-President Ben E. Lewis. Dr. Gerrit
de Jong, Jr., left, first dean of the Col-
lege of Fine Arts and Communications,
and Conan Mathews, then dean, are
seated on the stand.

iMPmpnav

- "1!l1

(Bottom)

The massive Fine Arts Center under
construction, with the Abraham O.
Smoot Administration and General Ser-
vices Building beyond. The Center
covers about two acres of land and con-

tains 258,000 square feet of floor space,
the largest structure on campus at the
time of its construction. In plan it re-
sembles a gigantic "H" formed by four
wings connected by a grand gallery.

255

Kliflti S ft

(Top)

Honored guests were on the stage of
the Concert Hall in the Harris Fine Arts
Center at services on November 23,
1965, when areas of the building were
named for them or their families. Rec-
ognized were, front row, left to right:
Dr. Franklin Madsen and Dr. Florence
Jepperson Madsen (Madsen Recital
Hall); Dr. Gerrit de Jong, Jr., and Mrs.
de Jong (de Jong Concert Hall); Mrs.
Herald R. Clark and Herald R. Clark
(Herald R. Clark Collection of Maynard
Dixon Paintings); Bent F. Larsen and
Mrs. Larsen (B. F. Larsen Art Gallery);
Dr. Alonzo J. Morley (Alonzo J. Morley
Speech and Hearing Laboratories); Mrs.
Kathryn Pardoe and Dr. T. Earl Pardoe
(Pardoe Drama Theatre); back row:
Dr. Clawson Cannon, acting dean;
President Ernest L. Wilkinson, Milton
Ross and wife Minnie Margetts Ross
(Philip N. Margetts Arena Theater);
Dr. John Eastmond and mother, Mrs.
Elbert H. Eastmond (Elbert H. East-
mond Art Seminar Room); Mrs. Harri-
son R. Merrill (Harrison R. Merrill De-
bate Theater); Mrs. Edith Y. Booth,
representing the Nelke Club (Miriam
Nelke Experimental Theatre); Mrs.
Robert H. Hinckley, and Robert H.
Hinckley (Robert H. Hinckley Radio
and Television Studios). Named also
were the B. Cecil Gates Opera Work-
shop, the Henry E. Giles Museum of
Musical Instruments, the Walther and
Ebba Mathesius Music Seminar Room,
the Albert Miller Orchestra Room, and
the Robert Sauer Band Room.

(Bottom)

This central gallery of the Fine Arts
Center connects the four wings of the
spacious building. The gallery, named
for Bent F. Larsen, who was chairman
of the BYU Art Department for twenty-
two of his fifty-two years of service, is
the foyer for five theaters in the building
and provides for an integration of the
arts.

256

■jL,

'BSI

BSHP 7 % *

(Top)

KBYU-TV, with studios in the Harris
Fine Arts Center, went on the air in
November, 1965, and by 1974 was
broadcasting sixteen hours a day with a
staff of sixty-five full-time professionals
and part-time sudents. The program-
ming includes children's programs,
adult general interest shows, daytime
instruction for in-class assistance of
public schools, and BYU television
classes for university credit. The signal
extends from Brigham City on the north
to Nephi on the south by air and beyond
by cable systems. KBYU-TV also car-
ries programs of the satellite system
and is a member of the Public Broad-
casting System. The station has pro-
duced several programs which have
been carried nationally.

(Center)

This is the de Jong Concert Hall in the
Fine Arts Center, with seating capacity
of 1,451. Across the hall from it is the
Pardoe Drama Theatre with 612 seats.
There are also the 280-seat Miriam
Nelke Experimental Theatre, the 436-
seat Madsen Recital Hall, and the 150-
seat Margetts Arena Theatre. The
building also contains 64 class, seminar,
laboratory, and studio rooms; 112
offices, reception and conference
rooms; 57 music practice rooms; and 26
speech practice cubicles.

(Bottom )

Engineers of the BYU Broadcast Services
decided that the easiest way to mount
the antenna atop the Harris Fine Arts
Center was by use of a helicopter,
which simply lowered the device into
place, where it was secured by work-
men below (March 11, 1968).

257

(Top)

Dr. Ralph Woodward conducts a prac-
tice session of the famed A Cappella
Choir in the Madsen Recital Hall of the
Harris Fine Arts Center.

(Center)

Conan Mathews, dean of the College of
Fine Arts and Communications from
1959 to 1967, examines part of the
Mahonri Young Art collection. There
are more than 8,000 pieces in the collec-
tion, including sculpture, oil paintings,
water colors, drawings, sketch books,
prints, and casts.

(Bottom)

The spacious stage of the de Jong Con-
cert Hall in the Fine Arts Center easily
accommodates this large performing
group, the Oratorio Choir and one of
the University's three symphony or-
chestras, in a performance conducted by
Dr. John R. Halliday.

m/ / j sir^T

fjljm

wrM&Kx- \

258

(Top left)

A technician of the E. F. Walcker Com-
pany of Ludwigsburg, Germany, puts
finishing touches on the outstanding
51-rank pipe organ which was installed
in the Madsen Recital Hall of the Fine
Arts Center in 1970. The first concert
was played on the organ by the world-
renowned Belgian organist, Flor Peeters,
on December 2, 1970. It is one of the
largest and finest pipe organs in Utah.

(Top right )

Professor J. J. Keeler, university or-
ganist, pauses at the console of the pipe
organ in his studio in the Fine Arts
Center, one of six pipe organs in that
building. In all, there were ten pipe
organs and five electric organs on BYU
campus in 1974. These were part of a
total of 455 keyboard stations, includ-
ing organs, pianos, and practice sets.

(Bottom left)

Macduff, played by Neldon Maxfield,
slays Macbeth, played by Craig Costello,

in an exciting 1967 production by the
BYU Speech and Dramatic Arts Depart-
ment of the Shakespearean classic on
the stage of the Pardoe Drama Theatre.
Approximately twenty major dramatic
productions and about sixty musical
concerts are presented each season in
the five theaters of the Harris Fine Arts
Center. In the 1972-73 school year,
counts of the College of Fine Arts and
Communications showed 38,600 pa-
trons attended dramatic arts events, and
208,875 attended musical events.

(Bottom right)

The addition of the Stephen L Richards
Physical Education Building in 1965
provided Brigham Young University
with a physical education plant perhaps
unequaled. In addition to its vast
facilities are the golf practice lawns, the
indoor and outdoor tennis courts, the
George Albert Smith Fieldhouse with its
many courts, fields, and gymnasiums;
several large outdoor playing fields, the
all-steel stadium, and two regulation

baseball diamonds — almost a solid
mile of physical education facilities
(from Eighth North to Seventeenth
North streets). The Richards Building
is 620 feet long and 280 feet wide and
covers more than the entire playing
field and track of the old stadium site
where it was built. It is connected to
the Fieldhouse by an underground
tunnel. Designed by a combination of
firms. Central Utah Architects, it was
built by Mark B. Garff, Ryberg, and
Garff Construction Company.

259

(Top left)

A prime mover in the promotion, plan-
ning, and construction of the Physical
Education Building was Dr. Milton F.
Hartvigsen, dean of the College of
Physical Education from 1956 to 1974.
He was named Professor of the Year in
1963 and winner of the Karl G. Maeser
Award for teaching excellence in 1973.
In this photograph he inspects progress
of the new building construction.

(Top right)

Present at the dedication of the Stephen
L Richards Physical Education Building
on November 5, 1965, were Elder

Gordon B. Hinckley of the Council of
the Twelve, left; BYU President Ernest
L. Wilkinson, President N. Eldon Tan-
ner of the First Presidency of the
Church, Mrs. Stephen L Richards, and
her son, Lynn S. Richards.

(Center)

The natatorium at the Stephen L
Richards Building includes three pools
and balconies on two sides with 1,100
seats. One pool is designed for inter-
collegiate competition, one for begin-
ning swimmers, and one for diving.
They hold 528,000 gallons of filtered
water, and six underwater observation
windows allow teachers and coaches to
observe the swimmers and divers below
the surface of the water.

(Bottom)

In addition to the natatorium, the
Physical Education Building contains
two large gymnasiums, two small gym-
nasiums, two dance studios, offices for

260

faculty members, seven classrooms, and
a Human Performance Research Center
(consisting of eighteen laboratory areas,
an adaptive physical education room, a
leadership training (scouting) area, a
driver training area, a laundry facility,
and dressing rooms and showers). The
extensive facilities are in almost con-
stant use.

(Top)

A bronze plaque bearing a quotation
from President Stephen L Richards on
the duty of physical fitness was mounted
at the south entrance of the Richards
Building. It is displayed here by Dean
Hartvigsen and Stephen R. Covey, a
professor of organizational behavior
and a grandson of President Richards.

(Center)

On August 23, 1961, Elder Harold B.
Lee spoke at groundbreaking ceremonies
for the Ernest L. Wilkinson Center.

( Bottom )

The Wilkinson Center, hub of student
activity on campus, was the product of
many years of effort by students, faculty,
and friends. By 1950, alumni, service-
men, missionaries, faculty, and staff had
contributed over $80,000 toward a
union building. With their consent
this fund was channeled into the con-
struction of the George Albert Smith
Fieldhouse. Then in 1953, when Presi-
dent Wilkinson appointed a committee
to determine needs for an activity cen-
ter, a student building fee was in-
stituted. The total cost was $6,765,000
of which 60 percent was provided by
students, 18 percent by income from
Auxiliary Services of the University,
and 22 percent by the Church. Con-
struction started in the summer of 1961;
the building was completed in April,

1964, and was dedicated on April 3,

1965.

261

(Top)

This was a senior banquet in the
spacious ballroom of the Wilkinson
Center. The entire building has 304,600
square feet of floor space on its six
levels, placing it among the larger
union buildings in the nation. It in-
cludes a bookstore wing, a theater,
assembly rooms, student offices, pub-
lications offices, a cafeteria and a snack
bar, a bowling alley and game rooms, a
post office, a barber shop, a photo
studio, a hobby shop, a credit union,
lounges, and the Skyroom. An entire
stake of the Church with twelve wards
meets in its various rooms, which dou-
ble as chapels on Sunday.

(Center)

Wilkinson Center bowling alleys. In
the adjoining room is a games center for
ping-pong, shuffle board, and other
entertainment.

(Bottom)

The Memorial Lounge is one of several
lounges in the Wilkinson Center.
Mounted here are plaques and trophies
honoring BYU students who gave their
lives in the two world wars.

262

(Top)

The Wilkinson Center Bookstore,
patronized by students and faculty alike.

(Center)

The cafeteria in the Wilkinson Center.
A snack bar also adjoins this room.

( Bottom )

Coeds admire the University seal, cast
in terrazzo and bronze, in the floor of
the Wilkinson Center foyer.

263

(Top)

On April 3, 1965, the day the Ernest L.
Wilkinson Center was dedicated. Presi-
dent Wilkinson, right, and student
body president Bruce L. Olsen posed
beside the new sign identifying the
building. Both were speakers at the
dedicatory services. Mr. Olsen later
became assistant dean of admissions
and records, and in February, 1973,
was named director of University
Relations.

( Center )

Each year the College of Physical
Education conducts a physical education
demonstration night (or sometimes a
week) to dramatize visually some of the
many activities of the area. This was
the scene in the Fieldhouse on demon-
stration night in January, 1960, when
women students performed mass
calisthenics. Demonstrations also in-
clude such activities as trampoline,
gymnastics, weight lifting, wrestling,
dance, and other physical feats. Water
shows began when the Richards Build-
ing was opened in 1965.

(Bottom)

Tom Read, left, Coach Jed Richardson,
and Craig Christensen display the first-
place trophies the BYU debating team
won at the Harvard University National
Invitational Debate Tournament in
1960. Other team members were Don
Black and Ron Walker.

264

(Top left)

Don Woodward, 1960 editor of the
Daily Universe, gets plenty of advice
from former editors of the paper: Hartt
Wixom, Steve Hale, Ralph Barney, Bob
Koenig, and Jerry Cahill. All of them,
including Woodward, became profes-
sional editorial or communications
people.

(Top right)

Typical of royalty chosen to add
glamor to a Homecoming celebration in
the 1960s was this court in 1965, in-
cluding Queen Kim Booke of Provo,
seated, Christine Payne, left, of Denver,
and Margaret Dyreng of Manti, Utah.

(Center)

Pretty coed song leaders have been a
tradition at BYU sports events for
decades. Typical of these groups that
contribute spirit and beauty to the oc-
casions is this quintet posing with
Cosmo in 1967: Mary Jane Shimoda,
left; Diane Gardner, Stefenee Nielsen,
Carol Huber, and Colleen Shields.

(Bottom)

Students of the late 1960s and early
1970s at times performed the waltz and
the fox trot at formal events because of
the influence of the many ballroom
dancing classes, but a survey in 1974
showed that students attended in greater
numbers the fast-paced "rock" dances.
This began with the "twist" in the early
1960s and developed into "rock."

265

(Top)

Conventional dancing was appropriate
at this 1971 Junior Prom in the marble
corridors of the Utah County Building
in downtown Provo.

(Bottom)

On campuses throughout the United
States in the late 1960s and early 1970s,
the agony of the Vietnam War resulted
in flag burnings, student strikes, de-
struction of campus property, protest
riots, and other unrest. While protest
demonstrations were absent on BYU
campus, the issues, nevertheless, were
keenly felt and were the subject of in-
tensive discussion. These students set
up a table asking for signatures on a
petition in support of U.S. policies in
Vietnam.

riii

* :9 £s

w s *

k '

r:*

266

(Top left )

However, that sign attracted a lot of
attention, not all of it of the type in-
tended by the sponsors, as indicated by
this heated debate that arose on the
spot and drew large crowds of in-
terested participants, both pro and con.

(Top right)

In January, 1971, three students
traveled 7,000 miles to deliver more
than 20,000 letters weighing 300
pounds to the North Vietnamese peace
delegation in Paris, requesting identi-
fication, conditions, and humane treat-
ment of American prisoners of war.
The letters were gathered on BYU cam-
pus from writers in Utah and other
states. The letter carriers were Lynn
Caylor, Alan Pace, and Robin Rother-
mel. The letters were carried to the
office building of the North Vietnamese
delegation, but the North Vietnamese
refused to accept them. The students
then began reading the letters in front
of the building until they were ordered
away by Paris police.

(Bottom)

During the hectic years of campus riots,
the only protest demonstration ever
held on BYU campus was by four fresh-
man girls who appealed for larger por-
tions of French fried potatoes in campus
cafeterias.

267

(Top)

Sometimes during the 1970 student
election campaign it was difficult to
proceed along the campus walks,
crowded with signs and politicians
extolling the strengths of their candi-
dates.

(Center)

Among the BYU students from every
state in the nation are many whose
homes are on farms and ranches of the
"cowboy states." They put their ranch-
ing skills to the test as members of the
BYU Rodeo team, sponsored by the
College of Biological and Agricultural
Sciences. Most of the student riders
bring their own horses to campus, and
the University provides a rodeo arena
in the area west of the stadium. This
1966 team posed in front of the Student
Project Laboratory Building, about a
mile north of the main campus, which
became a judging and showing ring.
Near this building is the Meat Science
Laboratory, providing students with in-
struction in meat processing, identifica-
tion, and evaluation. Across the street
is the poultry project with 14,000 laying
hens in five environmentally controlled
houses and the feed mill and other
buildings, providing on-the-job training
for about thirty students.

(Bottom)

Student body officers found a unique
way to introduce themselves at the
"Welcome Back" assembly at the be-
ginning of the 1967-68 school year.

(Opposite page, top)

Quizmaster Allen Ludden here poses a
question to the BYU team in the excit-
ing College Bowl on CBS network tele-
vision in 1962 that won nationwide ad-
miration for the group. Their coach,
Dr. Robert K. Thomas, said it was the
maturity, consideration, and mutual
kindliness of the team that won the
hearts of the nation for five weeks.
Scores of letters, telephone calls, a
forty-two-foot telegram, and personal
greetings cheered Bob Despain, Todd
Britsch, JoJean Loflin, and David Stone

RUSS

BOOTH

268

as they matched wits with the nation's
best in a television battle covering the
entire range of human knowledge.
Thousands of supporters shared the BYU
team's dramatic victories over Long
Island, Villanova, Wyoming, and
Maryland Universities. But on the
fifth week, in their attempt to win the
final contest, the travel-weary scholars
were defeated by De Pauw University.
Only six teams in the history of the
program had retired undefeated, and
BYU became the fourth team to win
four times. A huge crowd welcomed
them at the Provo airport as the band
played "When the Saints Come March-
ing in." A parade took them through
Provo to a reception on campus.

Coach Thomas related that the BYU
team went to Quizmaster Ludden when
it was all over and told him how much
they had appreciated his handling of the
program. "You are great!" he said, and
had to leave the stage as tears began to
streak his makeup.

(Center)

One of the most exciting annual events,
especially for the women, is the Pref-
erence Ball, to which the girls ask the
boys. The court of Preferred Men in
1961 included, front row, left to right:
Donald Wright, Craig Christensen,
David Jacobs, Richard Stringham;
second row: Roger Doxey, Kent Haws,
Doyle Seely; third row: Blaine Quarn-
strom, Richard Hunter, Bruce Gibb,
and Max Pinegar.

(Bottom)

These pretty pupils, part of the last
group to attend the Brigham Young
Laboratory School, peer out of a crum-
bling window of the old Education Build-
ing and contemplate the closing of their
school in 1968. The school, which in-
cluded the Brigham Young High School
and the Elementary School (grades
kindergarten through 12), was located
on Lower Campus and traced its be-
ginnings back to the beginnings of BYU.
The announcement of the closing was
made to the students at a general as-
sembly on December 8, 1967. Many of

269

the students had never attended any
other school. President Ernest L. Wil-
kinson explained that the Laboratory
School had outlived its original purpose
of training student teachers, since the
thousands of teachers produced by BYU
could not train there but had to gain
their practice in the schoolrooms of
districts in Utah and surrounding states.
It was closed also in the interests of
economy. The High School was fully
accredited by the Northwest Associa-
tion of Secondary and High Schools and
conducted a full schedule of athletics,
debates, drama competition, and other
programs of the Utah High School Ac-
tivities Association.

(Top left)

Proper standards of dress, grooming,
and conduct have always been en-
couraged at BYU, and the efforts of
student body officers, administrators,
and faculty have been enlisted to main-
tain the standards. For many years a
mirror was placed near the elevators in
the Wilkinson Center as a reminder of
this commitment.

(Top right )

During the nationwide campus dis-
orders of the late 1960s and early 1970s,
BYU students maintained their com-
posure and conformed to the standards
set by the Church and the University
rather than to those of the militants of
the day. The well-dressed students in
this 1969 candid photograph are what
the U.S. News and World Report was
talking about in its January 20, 1969,
edition:

It's a different kind of university here at
Brigham Young, a private school with
nearly 24,000 students on campus.

At a time when students everywhere
seem to be on the warpath, Brigham Young
University is undisturbed. It has never had
a serious demonstration.

There are no "hippies" here. Everybody
dresses up to go to class. Beards are a
rarity and you don't see any miniskirts.
There is no smoking on campus. Rules
against drinking include not only alcohol
but even tea and coffee.

"Elsewhere they burn the flag or ROTC
building," one university official remarked.
"Here we are expanding our ROTC, and
everybody stands and faces the flag when
the national anthem is played mornings
and evenings."

The reason Brigham Young is different is
that it is run by The Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) and con-
forms to Church policies.

Ninety-five percent of BYU's students
and 99 percent of its faculty and staff are
Mormons. The discipline of their religion
affects almost every university activity.

(Bottom)

The 1960s were marked by intensified
involvement of students in many affairs
of campus and on advisory boards.
Each autumn before the beginning of
classes, continuing to the present, an
orientation conference has been held for
all student officers, usually at Aspen
Grove, but sometimes at other locations,
such as Fish Lake or Jackson Hole. In
1965 Student Body President Bob
Christiansen addressed the assembled
student leaders.

270

Special Edition

(Bottom)

Within minutes after the assassination
of President John F. Kennedy on
November 22, 1963, the Daily Universe
distributed a special edition throughout
the campus. Printed on yellow paper, it
carried early reports of the shooting,
the search for the assassin, student
reaction, and the quick removal of
Vice-President Lyndon Johnson from
the area.

(Top left )

Student officers and leaders in 1965
listen to Bob Christiansen and other
speakers at the outdoor session at
Aspen Grove Family Camp. In some
years the sessions have lasted more
than a day and have included addresses
by BYU administrators, General Au-
thorities, and professors with expertise
in leadership ability, planning, time
management, organizational proce-
dures and other pertinent subjects. The
students also make their activity plans
for the year.

(Top right)

The annual winter carnival, when there
has been sufficient snow, has always
meant snow sculpture, some of it
beautiful, some humorous. This entry
in December, 1969, brought smiles from
campus passersby. The Winter Carnival
also includes election of a Snow King
and a Snow Queen, based on their pro-
ficiency in winter sports as well as
appearance and popularity. There have
also been skating parties, sleigh rides,
and, of course, dances.

271

(Top)

An army of 2,000 BYU students de-
scended upon the small Utah County
community of Santaquin on October 10,
1970, for "Santaquin Day," organized
by the students as a full day of clean-up,
paint-up, fix-up activity. Local business-
men responded with food, equipment,
and supplies for the young workers,
who painted about fifty homes and other
structures, demolished fifteen old barns
and homes, hauled away trees and old
car bodies, cleaned up weeds and trash,
began construction on a tennis court
and fifteen tables in the park, and
tackled numerous other projects.
Santaquin Day was first conceived in
a political science class of Dr. Doyle
Buckwalter as a project to give students
a chance to serve and an opportunity to
plan complicated logistics. Many other
students joined in, and the event was
noted by national magazines and by the
Office for Volunteer Action.

(Center)

Displaying the costumes of their re-
spective tribes, these Indian coeds per-
form a simple dance during Indian
Week, 1967-68. They are, left to right:
Laura Likehin, a Winnebago from
Winnebago, Nebraska; Arlene Williams,
a Navajo from Clifton, Arizona; Mar-
garet Red Elk, first attendant to Miss
Indian BYU, a Sioux from Poplar,
Montana; Vickie Washburn, Miss In-
dian BYU, a Comanche-Choctaw from
Apache, Oklahoma; Edith Begay, sec-
ond attendant, a Navajo from Fruitland,
New Mexico; and Janice Perry, a Piute
from Tuba City, Arizona. About
seventy-seven tribes are represented on
campus.

(Bottom)

The 600 American Indian students at
BYU — the largest Indian enrollment at
any university in the United States —
are held in special regard on campus.
Each autumn the Indian students, under
sponsorship of The Tribe of Many
Feathers, elect Miss Indian BYU, who
presides over annual Indian Week and
who occupies a place of honor at all
Indian student activities on campus
during the year. Elected Miss Indian
BYU for 1970-71 was Nora Begay, a
Navajo. Her attendants were Betty
Henderson, left, also Navajo, and
Beverly Ketcher, Cherokee. The follow-
ing summer Miss Begay was elected
Miss Indian America at the nationwide
All-American Indian Days at Sheridan,
Wyoming.

272

(Top)

The bells and feathers belie the sophisti-
cation of the BYU Indian students, who
major in all traditional University aca-
demic areas and who have an exception-
ally high ratio of degrees. They are
accepted to graduate programs in
medicine, engineering, law, and others.
BYU also sponsors seventy-one agri-
cultural and homemaking projects for
Indians at their own farms and com-
munities in the Western United States,
Canada, and Mexico through the BYU
Institute of American Indian Services
and Research.

Indian Week at BYU includes not
only the Miss Indian BYU Pageant, but
also Indian dances on the patio of the
Wilkinson Center; displays of Indian
crafts such as grinding corn, making
bread, and weaving; and the usual
"Lamanite Extravaganza,” a spectacular
stage show produced entirely by the
Indian students. Performing in this
photograph are Cecil Jack, left, a Huala-
pai from Grand Canyon, Arizona; Karen
Hamana, a Hopi- from Tuba City,
Arizona; and Grant Williams with his
young son, Alan, Comanches from
Duncan, Oklahoma.

(Bottom)

The Navajo section of The Lamanite
Generation poses on the steps of the
national Capitol during a nationwide
entertainment tour during the summer
of 1974. The group, organized by Pro-
gram Bureau Artistic Director Jane
Thompson in 1971, performed here, at
Disney World, at the Statue of Liberty,
and at numerous other stops. During
the same summer, ten members of the
troupe, under the direction of Miss
Thompson, made their first USO tour of
Europe. Their program includes Indian
and modern songs and dances, some
accompanied by sign language. They
present such impressive numbers as
''Ancient Days,” a song composed by
Miss Thompson that tells of the upward
striving pf the original Americans.
They also sing "Go My Son,” a song
composed by BYU students that tells
the American Indian to get an educa-

273

tion, and "Cherokee Nation," a song
and dance number that describes the
fate of the Indian.

(Top)

Ruth Ann Brown, left; Ima Naranjo,
and Millie Cody, all Navajo students at
BYU, performed for the Lamanite
Generation entertainment group (1972).

(Center)

Students come to BYU from every state
in the nation and from about seventy
foreign countries. Foreign students
total over 1,200, or about 5 percent of
the student body. Their activities are
coordinated through the International
Student Office, and every year they
organize to present International Week
on campus — a week of foreign enter-
tainment, food, displays, and discus-
sions. This colorful display in the Wil-
kinson Center was arranged by the
Chinese Club in February, 1969.
American students who have served in
foreign lands as missionaries or service-
men or who are majoring in the lan-
guage are accepted into membership in
the foreign clubs.

( Bottom )

Each year during the 1950s and 1960s
one of the most colorful assemblies of
the year was presented by the Poly-
nesian Club, which also participates in
International Week and sponsors its
own Polynesian Week. Polynesian
Week in 1968 included a spectacular
pageant in the Joseph Smith Building
Auditorium that portrayed the his-
torical background of the islands. Here
the Hawaiian religion in the person of
the kneeling priest (Victor Becenti) is
blended with Christianity (rector Philip
Walker) at the coronation of King
Kalakaua and Queen Kapiolani (John R.
Topolinski and Donna Chun). Decora-
tions are the feather leis and towering
feather kahilis (standards) made by
hand for the occasion.

274

(Top left)

During the winter of 1960 at BYU,
James Mugwero, a student from Kenya,
Africa, examined the first snow he had
ever seen.

(Top right)

The singing Huang sisters from Taiwan
made their BYU debut at the annual
"Fieldhouse Frolics" during Home-
coming Week, 1971. The sisters, who
are popular television stars in their
home country, are Lucy, Christine,
Michele, and Peggy.

(Bottom)

William Noble Waite, left, head of the
first full-time fund-raising operation at
BYU, and Dr. Kent McKnight (botany),
admire a collection of orchids given
to BYU. Mr. Waite was president
of the South Los Angeles Stake of the
Church and principal of the Huntington
Park High School at the time of his ap-
pointment in October, 1957, as assistant
to the president of BYU to head the
BYU Destiny Fund. He was an ex-
perienced fund-raiser, having headed
the fund drive for the Los Angeles LDS
Temple, bond drives for Los Angeles
City Schools, and the fund drive for a
district PTA child clinic. After raising
$5 million for BYU development funds,
he was called in 1962 to preside over
the North Scotland Mission of the
Church.

275

(Top)

Raymond E. Beckham, right, who had
served as executive secretary of the
Alumni Association from 1954, left that
position in 1964 to assume duties as
director of the University Development
Program. He directed the establishment
of the BYU National Development Ad-
visory Council in October, 1966, when
this photograph was taken with Elder
Delbert L. Stapley of the Council of the
Twelve Apostles, left (a member of the
advisory committee), and David M.
Kennedy, nationally prominent banker
and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
(chairman). The organization set up a
national operation with chairmen for
friends and parents committees, de-
ferred gifts, alumni gifts, foundations,
business and industry, annual giving,
and mineral development.

(Center)

A substantial boost to the BYU de-
velopment efforts was supplied by world
famous professional golfer Billy Casper,
who received the Exemplary Manhood
Award of the Associated Men Students
in 1967 and who was named national
volunteer chairman of the Department
of Annual Giving for BYTJ in 1969, to be
assisted by his wife, Shirley. Billy and
Shirley Casper were hosted at BYU by
David B. Haight, left, assistant to the
BYU president and later an assistant to
the Council of the Twelve Apostles, and
Donald T. Nelson, right, who suc-
ceeded Raymond E. Beckham as de-
velopment director. Mr. Nelson was
named head of the organization when it
was taken over by the Office of Church
Education, becoming "The Develop-
ment Office" in 1973 to generate fi-
nancial support not only for the world-
wide educational system of the Church
and Church Health Services but also for
BYU. Its headquarters remained on
BYU campus.

(Bottom)

In addition to its organized fund drives,
BYU also often receives special gifts,
such as a 3,000-volume Victorian lit-
erature collection valued at $143,000

BOARD OF TRUSTEES
BYU

PRESIDENT

BYU

advisory

COMMITTEE
DELBERT LSTAPLET

honardin hunter

MARION 0 HANKS

RYU DEVELOPMENT STAFF

276

for the Harold B. Lee Library donated
in 1969 by Roy E. Christensen, center,
president of Beverly Enterprises. Also
examining the manuscripts are Donald
K. Nelson, left, director of libraries,
and Dr. Robert K. Thomas, academic
vice-president and professor of English
literature.

(Top)

A major activity in support of the Uni-
versity's fund-raising efforts is the
annual Telefund campaign, sponsored
by the Alumni Association annually
throughout the United States. In this
operation teams of alumni or students
man batteries of telephones to call BYU
alumni and friends in various localities
to obtain donation pledges. Working
this Telefund night on March 9, 1965,
were Collin Allen, left; Paul Washburn,
Ford Paulson, Glen Thomas, Thomas
Taylor, and C. O. Lambert.

( Center )

Alumni through the years have con-
tributed to BYU development through
class gifts. This check for $59,360 was
donated by "Reunioning Classes" in
1968. Representatives were Robert
Klein, 1948; William Sorensen, 1938;
President Ernest L. Wilkinson, 1921;
F. M. Haycock, 1928; Frank Gardner,
1943; C. Joseph Rowberry, 1953; Grant
S. Thorn, 1933; Fred Markham, 1923;
Stan Collins, 1958; and Norm Nielsen,
1963.

(Bottom)

A ribbon-cutting ceremony formally
opening the 1200 North Street entrance
to BYU campus was held December 2,
1965, with city officials and many
foreign students present. The thirty-
two-foot sign on the south side of the
entrance reads: "The World Is Our

Campus." A slogan of the same size on
the north side of the street reads:
"Enter to Learn, Go Forth to Serve."
About 1,200 BYU students come from
foreign countries all over the world.
Nearly 8,000 are returned missionaries
who have served foreign missions.
BYU is known worldwide, too, for the

277

talent tours it sends to the United States
and abroad. And the University sends
its authorities and students to advise
and study in many lands.

( Top left)

BYU influence abroad (beginning with
President Franklin S. Harris's travels in
the 1920s and 1930s) has been exer-
cised by many BYU professors who
have served as advisers, teachers, sci-
entific consultants, and administrative
organizers in many lands. This trio —
Dr. Dean A. Peterson, Dr. Max Berry-
essa, and Dr. Reed Bradford — point on
the globe to Iran, where they partici-
pated in a U.S. educational mission in
1951.

(Top center)

In her typical style, Jane Thompson, the
genius and spark behind BYU Program
Bureau contemporary entertainment
productions, stands while playing the
piano for a variety show. The Public
Service Bureau was a forerunner of the
Program Bureau during the administra-
tion of President Harris. However, the
modern Program Bureau with its bright,
fast-moving shows was pioneered in
1952 when "Janie,” under the direction
of the Office of University Relations,
organized student talent on campus.
The following year "Happy Holidays"
was televised live in the Fieldhouse.
Since then Janie has traveled hundreds
of thousands of miles with shows of
her creation, such as "Curtain Time
USA," "Holiday in the USA," "Young
Ambassadors," "International Holiday,"
"Say It with Music," "Startime BYU,"
"The Lamanite Generation," and many
others. The USO and the armed ser-
vices have honored her several times

for her services; she has received the
Kiwanis International "Ambassadors
Award"; and November 14, 1968, was
proclaimed "Janie Thompson Day" in
Provo.

(Top right)

In the spring of 1965, twenty-five
talented members of the Program Bu-
reau toured eighteen Middle Eastern
and European countries sponsored by
the U.S. Department of State as a
college-to-college goodwill visit to im-
prove relations and impressions of
American youth. The plan was a great
success as the BYU students were ac-
claimed everywhere. The accompany-
ing photograph shows the scene in
Petal, Nepal, where the group played to
a large crowd, intrigued by the Ameri-

cans. They performed not only for
students but for kings, ambassadors,
ministers, and governors, and enjoyed a
three-hour visit with Jordan's King
Hussein. At the end of the regular
tour to Ceylon, India, Pakistan, Nepal,
Afghanistan, the United Arab Republic,
the Syrian Republic, Jordan, Lebanon,
Turkey, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Austria,
Germany, Switzerland, France and
England, they performed at the New
York World's Fair; at the American
legation to the United Nations, attended
by Ambassador Adlai Stevenson; in the
Senate Office Building in Washington,
D.C.; and for the Virginia LDS Stake.

(Bottom)

This pretty quintet was prominently
featured in the "Holiday in the USA"

278

show of the BYU Program Bureau which
appeared throughout the Pacific Com-
mand in 1965 — Sally Flynn, left;
Patti Petersen, Terry Douglas, Sandi
Jensen, and Stefenee Nielsen. Sandi
and Sally went on to fame in the
Lawrence Welk nationally televised
show. Patti Petersen became a Holly-
wood star as Heather Young, and was
featured in the long television series
"Valley of the Giants."

(Top left )

What could be more American than a
moonwalker (Tom Zimmerman), a
cowboy (Scott Taylor), a baseball
player (Alan Cherry), and a beautiful
Indian girl (Vickie Washburn)? They
were part of a talented Program Bureau
troupe which toured the Orient in 1970
with a show called "Holiday in the
USA," under the direction of Jane
Thompson. In addition to entertaining
servicemen in Korea, Guam, Japan,
Okinawa, the Philippines, and Hawaii,
they appeared in "Expo 70" at Osaka,
Japan. The cast changes as students

graduate, but new talent is constantly
added for top-level entertainment. The
group has also appeared in Europe,
Canada, Greenland, the Caribbean, and
the Middle East. In 1973 they made a
six-week's tour of Central and South
America under the direction of Harry
Schultz, traveling over 17,000 miles and
performing before over 53 million tele-
vision viewers and 26,000 persons in
auditoriums.

(Top right)

This group is part of the "BYU Sounds"
(or "Sounds of Freedom") which toured
southern Africa during the summer of
1974, under the direction of creative
director Harry Schultz and manager
John G. Kinnear, director of the Office
of University Programs. Said one
newspaper reviewer: "They're pure,

they're clean, they're fresh. Children
of the American dream we thought was
dead; they stepped right out of a tooth-
paste ad! They're a Norman Rockwell
painting of decent, middleclass Ameri-
can youth come alive. This was one of

the finest variety shows — professional
or amateur — this city has ever seen."

First directed by Ted Buckland, from
Chico, California, in 1966 the group
was formed to present patriotic pro-
grams but has added a modern variety
show. The BYU Sounds of Freedom
toured the Orient in 1970 and the
Caribbean in 1971 under the auspices of
the U.S. Department of Defense. They
have also toured throughout the United
States and Canada in many mid-semes-
ter tours. They have performed at
"Hemisphere 68" in Texas; "Expo 70"
in Osaka, Japan; at Disneyland, Cali-
fornia; on the Ed Sullivan television
show in New York; and on television
programs in Korea, Panama, and in
several states in America.

(Bottom)

Five associate directors cooperated with
the conductor. Dr. Crawford Gates, in
preparing the combined choruses and
orchestra of 400 student musicians for
their unprecedented tour of California
in 1963. Discussing the production of
the program — Bach's "Magnificat in
D" and Walton's "Belshazzar's Feast"
— are Dr. Gates, left; Dr. John R.
Halliday, Oratorio Choir; Professor
Lawrence Sardoni, Symphony Orches-
tra; Professor Maughan McMurdie,
Men's and Women's Choruses; Kurt
Weinzinger, A Cappella Choir; and
Dr. Ralph Laycock, Concert Band.

279

(Top left)

Vivacious Mary Bee Jensen, associate
professor of recreation education, or-
ganized the BYU International Folk
Dancers in 1956 from students in her
classes to provide entertainment for a
local banquet program. They were im-
mediately popular, and soon began
touring throughout the Western States.
With acquisition of authentic costumes
of many nations and expert instruction
by folk dance authorities from other
countries, the group became probably
the outstanding folk dance organization
in the United States and soon began
representing not only the school but
also the state and the United States
abroad. On the 1974 tour of Europe
(the tenth), USA membership was con-
ferred at the world conference of the
Confederation of Folklore Festivals in
Billingham, England, and Mrs. Jensen
was accepted as the U.S. delegate, with
Dr. Clayne Jensen, dean of the College
of Physical Education, as alternate. In
this photograph, Mrs. Jensen, right,
teaches students the dance of a foreign
land.

(Top right )

The great chorus and orchestra of the
BYU Music Department practice in the
ballroom of the Joseph Smith Memorial
Building in preparation for their tour of
California in 1963. The ballroom was
later partitioned into two floors of of-
fices for members of the religion faculty.

(Bottom)

James H. Lawrence, long-time manager
of BYU talent tours, tries to figure how
he is going to get all of those people in
buses, restaurants, and homes as the
400 BYU musicians prepare for their
1963 California tour.

280

(Top)

A line of BYU International Folk
Dancers swirls in a high-spirited
Hungarian "Czardas,” a dance portray-
ing the beauty and femininity of the
Hungarian girl and showing off the
workmanship of finely embroidered
costumes.

(Bottom)

The first American folk dance team to
represent the United States in Europe,
the BYU dancers have earned a reputa-
tion of excellence both on and off the
stage in almost every country in Europe.
They have appeared in folk festivals in
many countries; on German, Spanish,
French, Norwegian, and Belgian nation-
al television before millions of viewers;
before Princess Grace in Monaco along-
side dancers from all over Europe; in
famous entertainment centers, such as
Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen; and in
famous theaters, such as Salle Playel in
Paris and Turku Konserttisalli, Finland.
On one of their tours of the United
States they also appeared at the Lincoln
Center in New York City, where they
received a standing ovation. In this
photograph, the 1968 touring group
kicks up its heels in an American hoe-
down in front of Schoten Castle, Bel-
gium. Most of the European tours pre-
sent "America through Dance," while
the U.S. tours present dances of other
nations.

281

(Top)

Excited about their departure on January
27, 1968, for the "BYU Semester

Abroad" are Judy Willis, left; Maureen
Brown, Darlene Dursteler, and Nancy
Stromberg. The captain of the airplane
shares their excitement as does BYU
Travel Studies Director Robert Taylor
(rear). The Semester Abroad program
was originated in 1964 under the aegis
of Acting President Earl C. Crockett and
later became the Half-Year Abroad,
with programs in Salzburg, Paris,
Jerusalem, Madrid, and London. Year-
round headquarters are maintained at
these centers. Students in the centers
are taught by BYU professors as well as
by local university professors in the
country's history, arts, language, reli-
gion, political science, and archaeology.

In addition, BYU Travel Studies
operates dozens of travel study tours
lasting from several weeks to several
months to such areas as the Orient,
Europe, the Bible lands, church history
sites, Latin America, and even around
the world.

(Center)

Dr. Ralph Woodward, conductor of the
A Cappella Choir, shows Dr. A. Harold
Goodman, chairman of the Music De-
partment, the trophy the Choir received
for winning first place in the Inter-
national Eisteddfod in Llangollen,
Wales, in 1968.

(Bottom)

After its triumph in Wales in 1968, the
BYU A Cappella Choir toured Europe
three other times through 1974. In this
photograph it was performing in an
outdoor concert at the Doges Palace in
Venice, Italy, in 1972. It was also named
"Best International Choir" at the Linz,
Austria, Centennial Festival in 1970; it
was the first non-Catholic choir to sing
in Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris in
1970, and it repeated the performance
in 1972; it performed at the 350th an-
niversary of the sailing of the May-
flower in Plymouth, England; it was the
special guest of the Mayor of Lyons,
France, for the city's July 4 celebration

282

in 1970; and it toured the Scandinavian
countries for three weeks in May, 1974.

(Top)

This happy crew toured Europe for
three months in 1968, performing Bye
Bye, Birdie for servicemen and LDS
Church groups under the direction of
Dr. Harold I. Hansen. He had pre-
viously taken the dramatic productions
The Man Who Came to Dinner and
Blithe Spirit to the Orient. In 1974
Hello Dolly went to the Orient under
the direction of Charles Henson.

(Center)

This was the scene in London's famous
Royal Albert Hall on May 28, 1971, as
the BYU Ballroom Dance Team cap-
tured the World's Amateur Modern
Ballroom Dancing championship — the
first American team to compete in ball-
room dancing abroad. On the same
trip they also won the British Formation
Ballroom championship in Blackpool,
England, and presented an exhibition of
Latin dancing at Manchester, England,
and Berlin, Germany. Their Royal
Albert Hall triumph was seen by mil-
lions of television viewers. The team
was coached by Roy and June Mavor.

( Bottom )

The BYU Cougar Marching Band passes
the presidential reviewing stand as part
of the big parade in Washington, D.C.,
after the inauguration of President
Richard M. Nixon on January 20, 1973.
The band serenaded Mr. Nixon with a
special arrangement of "America the
Beautiful," arranged by Dr. Ralph G.
Laycock of the BYU music faculty.

283

(Top)

President Harry S Truman, center,
chats with BYU President Ernest L.
Wilkinson and Church President David
O. McKay at a special assembly held in
the old stadium on October 6, 1952, at
which President Truman gave a major
address.

(Bottom)

Following the concert of the Boston
Symphony Orchestra in the Joseph
Smith auditorium in May 1953, Con-
ductor Pierre Monteux was stopped on
the back stairs by autograph seekers.

284

(Top)

Many famous symphony orchestras
have visited BYU campus, and one that
created a lot of enthusiasm was the
New York Philharmonic in May, 1955.
These students decorated a car to wel-
come the musicians, who were guests of
the women students at dinner in
Heritage Halls.

(Center)

Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos of the
New York Philharmonic Orchestra
congratulates piano soloist Grant
Johannesen after the orchestra and the
visiting artist thrilled the large audience
in the George Albert Smith Fieldhouse
with a performance of Beethoven's
Concerto No. 3 in C Minor. The BYU
lyceum committee, headed by Herald R.
Clark, also sponsored the New York
Philharmonic concert in the Salt Lake
Tabernacle the previous night (May 12,
1955).

(Bottom)

Cecil B. DeMille, famous producer of
motion picture spectaculars such as
King of Kings and The Ten Command-
ments, clutches his diploma and ac-
knowledges applause after receiving the
Honorary Doctor of Laws degree at
commencement exercises in May, 1957,
in the George Albert Smith Fieldhouse.
Church President David O. McKay,
who presided, and Dr. Gerrit de Jong,
Jr., dean of the College of Fine Arts,
who read the citation, take their places
on the stand after the conferring cere-
mony.

285

(Top left)

When he was Vice-President of the
United States, Richard M. Nixon spoke
on the containment of communism to
the Brigham Young University student
body on October 17, 1958, in the
George Albert Smith Fieldhouse. He
mentioned on that occasion that he had
visited BYU previously — back in 1933
when he was a member of the Whittier
College debate team. The Y News of
January 28, 1933, reported: "Brigham
Young University's negative debating
team, composed of Wendell Jacob and
Weldon Taylor, last night won a two to
one judges' decision of a team composed
of Richard Nixon and Joseph Sweeney,
representing Whittier College of Cali-
fornia."

(Top right)

The great American poet and biog-
rapher, Carl Sandburg, spoke in an
assembly in the George Albert Smith
Fieldhouse in May, 1959, and in
commencement exercises he received
the Honorary Doctor of Literature de-
gree. He was introduced in the as-
sembly by President Ernest L. Wilkin-
son, right.

(Center)

The speaker in the outstanding forum
lecture series on October 19, 1959, was
Carlos Romulo of the Philippines,
former president of the United Nations
General Assembly. Afterward he was
surrounded by students and faculty
members: Herald R. Clark, above left,
former dean of the College of Business
and Lyceum chairman; Edwin Butter-
worth, News Bureau director; and Lavar
Rockwood, assistant dean of students.

286

(Opposite page, bottom)

In one of its rare appearances at Brig-
ham Young University, in 1961 the
Salt Lake Tabernacle Choir performed
Brahms's "Requiem," in combination
with the BYU Symphony Orchestra in
the George Albert Smith Fieldhouse.

( Top left )

For several years in the 1960s BYU
cooperated with KSL, The Deseret
News, and The Improvement Era in

awarding the annual "Family Movie of
the Year" award in an effort to en-
courage better motion pictures suitable
for family viewing. The winning film
in 1965 was "Follow Me, Boys," pro-
duced by Walt Disney Studios. Hon-
ored in an assembly on March 30, 1965,
were Miss Vera Miles, star of the show,
and Winston Hibler, center, director.
Their host for the day at BYU was
W. O. Whitaker, left, director of the
BYU Motion Picture Production De-
partment and a former employee of
Disney Studios.

(Top right)

Vice-President of the United States
Hubert H. Humphrey was a visitor to
BYU campus on October 21, 1966, and
spoke in an assembly in the George
Albert Smith Fieldhouse. In this photo-
graph he is surrounded by students
wishing to shake his hand. At his right
is U.S. Senator Frank E. Moss of Utah.

(Bottom)

Paul Harvey, left, nationally noted
columnist and radio commentator, was
greeted by student body president Paul
Gilbert when he came to campus to
speak at a Freedom Festival sponsored
by BYU students on December 7, 1967
(Pearl Harbor Day), in the George Al-

bert Smith Fieldhouse. Viewing the
thousands of students who had gathered
for a reaffirmation of their patriotism,
Harvey said, "This is what I call a
demonstration." Reporting on BYU in
his broadcast the next day he said,
"These days many young eyes are pre-
maturely old from countless com-
promises with conscience. But young
lads and ladies of BYU have that en-
viable headstart which derives from
discipline, dedication, and consecra-
tion. For that campus literally and
figuratively is built on a rock!"

287

(Top left)

U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy was
swamped by student well-wishers when
he visited BYU campus and spoke in
the George Albert Smith Fieldhouse on
March 28, 1968, during the national
campaign activity when he was seeking
nomination as Democratic presidential
candidate. He was shot by an assassin
on June 5, 1968, in Los Angeles, and
died the next day.

(Top right )

Vice-President of the United States
Spiro T. Agnew visited BYU campus
and was an assembly speaker on May
8, 1969, in the George Albert Smith
Fieldhouse. He returned during the
campaign year on October 24, 1972,
and spoke in the Marriott Center.

(Bottom left)

Tricia Nixon, daughter of President
Richard M. Nixon, visited BYU campus
during Homecoming week, 1970, and
spoke to student groups. She received
a "mum” corsage with a blue ”Y” and a
set of scriptures.

(Bottom right)

President and Mrs. Ernest L. Wilkinson
of BYU held a reception in the Skyroom
on January 22, 1971, for Princess Irene
of Greece, left; internationally famous
pianist Gina Bachauer, and Utah Sym-
phony Orchestra conductor Maurice
Abravanel, right, following a concert in
the George Albert Smith Fieldhouse in
which the Princess and Miss Bachauer
played the Mozart "Concerto in E-flat
for Two Pianos" with the Utah Sym-
phony Orchestra.

288

(Top left )

C. Rodney Kimball, trainer and in-
structor in physical education who
started with BYU in 1937, tapes up the
injured knee of basketballer Brian Am-
brosich. "Rod" has traveled with BYU
teams of all sports to South America,
Europe, the South Pacific, and through-
out the United States, binding up the
athletes with miles of adhesive tape
every year, keeping them in training,
and treating their aches, pains, bruises,
and blisters.

(Top right)

Dr. Wendell Vance, physician for BYU
athletic teams since 1960, patches up a
cut on the face of Tim Russell during a
football game (1965). Dr. Vance has
also traveled throughout the world with
BYU teams.

(Bottom left )

Floyd Johnson, athletic equipment man-
ager, has been keeping uniforms clean
and repaired and the extensive para-
phernalia of sports activity ready for

use since 1956. But Floyd is also a kind
of father figure with whom athletes
share personal problems and from
whom they receive sage advice.

(Bottom right)

Marvin Roberson, who joined the BYU
staff in 1966, is also an instructor in
physical education and a trainer of BYU
athletic teams. Photographed here tap-
ing up a weakened ankle, "Marv" has
also worked with professional football
teams and foreign teams in the Olym-
pics. He has been an effective recruiter
of foreign athletes.

289

(Top)

Charles L. (Chick) Atkinson, head foot-
ball coach at BYU from 1949 to 1955,
poses with his 1954 co-captains Marion
Probert (left) and Dick Felt. Coach
Atkinson had a record of 18 wins, 49
losses, and 3 ties.

Dick Felt was an all-conference back,
graduating in 1958. After service in the
U.S. Air Force, he played professional
football with the New York Titans
(1960-61) and with the Boston Patriots
(1962) as a cornerback, winning all-pro
honors and playing in two all-star
games. He joined the BYU coaching
staff in 1967 as coordinator of defensive
backs.

Marion Probert became a physician
and surgeon. He was killed in an air-
plane crash on November 27, 1965, one
of thirteen BYU fans who lost their
lives when a chartered airplane crashed
at Point-of-the-Mountain. The plane
was flying from Salt Lake City to Provo
to pick up more fans for the trip to a
BYU-New Mexico football game in
Albuquerque.

(Center)

The Cougars lured Hal Kopp, former
head coach at Rhode Island, to the Provo
campus to take over the head coaching
chores. Kopp (center) chose as his as-
sistants, left to right: Allan Davis,

Owen Dixon, Max Tolbert, and Tally
Stevens. Kopp, who brought a sprin-
kling of Eastern talent with him, was
head coach for three seasons (1956-58).

(Bottom)

The football coaching staff at BYU in
1960 consisted of Head Coach Tally
Stevens (seated); Chris Apostol, left;
Owen Dixon, Hal Mitchell, Glen
Tuckett, and Carl Rollins. Stevens was
named head coach of the Cougars the
year before, succeeding Hal Kopp, and
completed a two-year win-loss record of
6-15. He was succeeded by Hal Mit-
chell, who coached three years (1961-
63) with a record of 8-22.

Wm s

290

(Top left )

A nearly legendary figure of the early
sixties was Eldon "The Phantom"
Fortie, who won All-American honors
in 1962 as a single-wing tailback for
the Cougars. Fortie, from Salt Lake
City, led the nation in total offense for
awhile and finished second in the na-
tion in rushing and third in scoring,
gaining 1,963 yards in his senior year.
He was responsible for twenty-one
touchdowns and was named to several
All-American first-team selections (sec-
ond on the wire service choices) as a

result of his great run-pass threat from
the single-wing. In three years with
the Cougars, Fortie had over 3,000 yards
total offense. His jersey, number 40,
was later retired.

(Top right)

Tommy Hudspeth, who coached eight
seasons at BYU (1964-71) is pictured
here with three standouts from the
team that captured the Western Ath-
letic Conference football championship
in 1965: defensive end Glenn Gardner
(74), defensive back Curg Belcher (46),

and quarterback Virgil Carter (14).
Carter electrified the league for three
seasons, and his national record of 599
yards total offense in one game (Texas-
El Paso in 1966) still stands as an NCAA
record.

(Bottom)

Several brother combinations have
been involved in Cougar sports over the
years, but none better known on the
gridiron than the Ogden brothers, John
and Steve. The duo from Tarzana,
California, were backs on the BYU teams
of the mid-sixties (1964-66). John (32),
a fullback, established himself as one of
the great runners in the Rocky Moun-
tain-Southwest, winning the Western
Athletic Conference rushing champion-
ship for three consecutive years. He is
the only back in the history of the WAC
to be so honored. John carried the ball
535 times over a three-year period, and
was thrown for a loss only twice. He
averaged 4.5 yards per carry during his
playing career at BYU. Steve Ogden, a
wingback, joined his brother at BYU
after serving a Church mission. Steve,
too, won three letters at BYU.

291

(Top)

Riding the football hitting sled powered
by three Cougar backs are the 1964
Homecoming royalty. Queen Judy
Green, front, and attendants Dana
Rosada and Julie Ann Pauli. The foot-
ball players are Curg Belcher, Kent
Oborn, and quarterback Virgil Carter.
Virgil Carter later married Queen Judy
and played professionally as quarter-
back for the Chicago Bears, the Cin-
cinnati Bengals, and the Chicago Fires.

( Center )

A memorable first in football annals at
BYU was the Cougars' first-ever win
over Utah in Provo. Floyd Millet's and
Hal Kopp's teams previously had
beaten Utah in Salt Lake City, but Hud-
speth's team pulled it off in Provo in
1965, and he was carried off the field on
the shoulders of his players. The final
score over the Utes was 25-20 in a
Homecoming game played in the Cou-
gars' new stadium. Hudspeth and the
Cougars went on to win the Conference
championship, plus two more back-to-
back wins over the Cougars' northern
rivals.

( Bottom )

Prior to the construction of the George
Albert Smith Fieldhouse, which was
opened with the 1951-52 season, the
Cougars played their home games in
the Springville High School Gymnasium.
Capacity crowds were assured for each
game at Springville, and very often
three or four hundred over capacity
were on hand to see players like Mel
Hutchins (14), Roland Minson (11), and
Joe Nelson (6) play rivals like Utah
State.

292

WRMOW <0RM0^ jnBUQMc MRiOMe 7 »

I 40RMON5 W'lOHS CRMONS tfJRMOf

'OMOtf

(Top)

The summer of 1950 found the Cougars
on a thirty-three-day tour of South
America, where they were undefeated in
twelve games. It was the school's first
trip abroad, and part of the time was
spent visiting local Church branches.
Members of the BYU team were, kneel-
ing, Bob Craig, Boyd Jarman, Loren
Dunn, Mel Hutchins, Jerry Romney,
Leon Heaps; standing. Coach Stan
Watts, Joe Richey, Richard Jones, Ro-
land Minson, Don Malmrose, Russ
Hillman, Harold Christensen, and
trainer Rod Kimball. The Cougars came
home, captured the Skyline Six Con-
ference championship, won the NIT
Title in Madison Square Garden in New
York, and played three games in the
NCAA finals.

(Center)

Capping a very successful basketball
season, members of the 1950-51 squad
won three straight in the National In-
vitational Tournament with decisive
wins over St. Louis, Seton Hall, and
Dayton in Madison Square Garden.
The starting five on the team consisted
of Joe Richey, left; Roland Minson,
Jerry Romney, Mel Hutchins, and
Harold Christensen. In the back-
ground behind Coach Stan Watts, who
is holding the tournament trophy, are
Director of Athletics Edwin R. Kimball
and Elder Ezra Taft Benson of the Coun-
cil of the Twelve Apostles.

(Bottom)

During the course of the 1965-66 season.
Coach Stan Watts won his 300th game
as the Cougars' head basketball coach.
Although the victory came on the road
while the Cougars were defeating Cor-
nell in a game played in Philadelphia,
the honors were saved for the first home
game following the historic event.
Coach Watts received a cake and a set
of luggage following a 95-81 decision
over Arizona State in the George Albert
Smith Fieldhouse. Watts went on to
win over 400 games in his 23 years as
head coach before leaving the post to
devote full time to his position as di-
rector of athletics.

293

(Top left)

For the second time in his twenty-three-
year career as head coach at BYU, Stan
Watts was hoisted onto the shoulders of
his players for a brief parade on the
court of Madison Square Garden fol-
lowing the Cougars' NIT win of 1966.
Carrying the jubilant coach are Jeff
Congdon, Gary Hill, and Steve Kramer.

(Top right)

The starting guards on the Cougars'
NIT championship team of 1966 were
Jeff Congdon and Dick Nemelka, two of
the finest backcourt players in BYU his-
tory. A superb ball-handler who had a
flare for the spectacular, Congdon lured
fans to home and road games with his
wizardry. Nemelka, a three-year starter
who won All-American honors in his
senior year, was the floor general who
also set a school record of twenty-four
points per game.

(Bottom)

One of the best records ever posted by
a BYU basketball team was produced by
the 1965-66 club pictured here. The
team finished with a 23-8 overall record,
won its second National Invitational
Tournament championship, was un-
defeated at home, and averaged 95.5
points per game in 30 games. It was the
highest-scoring, hottest-shooting team

in the school's history. BYU played be-
fore 217,574 fans that year, not includ-
ing countless thousands who watched
them on several telecasts. Members of
the team were, kneeling, left to right:
Ron Schouten, Jim Jimas, Jeff Congdon,
Dick Nemelka, Ken James; standing:
Gary Hill, Steve Kramer, Craig Ray-
mond, Jim Eakins, Orville Fisher, Bill
Ruffner, and Neil Roberts.

294

(Top left)

Song leaders and President Ernest L.
Wilkinson presented Stan Watts with a
cake at the last game in the George
Albert Smith Fieldhouse on February
27, 1971. He entered the hospital the
next day for a serious operation.

(Top right)

This triumvirate of track and field
coaches at BYU helped bring many
honors to the school. Coach Clarence
Robison, center, who started as track
coach in 1949, is flanked by assistants
Willard Hirschi (1964) and Sherald

James (1962). In 1974 Coach Hirschi
worked with sprinters and hurdlers,
while Coach James was cross country
and distance coach. Coach Robison's
teams claimed one NCAA team cham-
pionship and fourteen conference titles.
While he was a student at BYU, Coach
Robison set the mile and the two-mile
records, and climaxed his student track
career as a member of the 1948 Olympic
track team.

(Bottom)

Track and field competition abroad has
been a regular thing under BYU track
and field coach Clarence Robison. The
Cougars have traveled to Europe on four
occasions, meeting the best that the
continent has to offer. Among those
identified in the welcome at Hamburg,
Germany, were Athletic Director Floyd
Millet, Coach Robison, and distance
runner Ray Barrus (center).

295

(Top)

BYU's Ralph Mann, 21 years old, set a
new world record for the 440-yard
intermediate hurdles at the NCAA
Track and Field Championships in June,
1970, at Des Moines, Iowa, edging out
the great hurdler, Wayne Collette,
left, of the University of California at
Los Angeles, in 48.8 seconds.

(Bottom left)

Lots of watchers with watches formed
this column of official timers who
clocked races at the NCAA track and
field championships held in BYU
Stadium in June, 1967. One of the
most successful sporting events ever
held at the University, the meet was
billed as a meet of champions. The field
of contestants included O. J. Simpson,
Jim Ryan, Bob Seagren, Randy Matson,
and scores of other track and field
greats. The meet was won by the Uni-
versity of Southern California, and the
Cougars placed fourth in the team
standings.

(Bottom right)

The locker-room gloom reflected on the
faces of these 1958 BYU baseball players

didn't follow a game defeat. The somber
scene was the outgrowth of a University
struggle with the NCAA over Sunday
playoff games. Members of Coach Jay
Van Noy's team had won the division
by taking a series with the University of
Utah, had won the Skyline Conference
by winning a series with New Mexico,
and had won the region by defeating
Colorado State College at Greeley, but
the University turned down an invita-
tion to play in the NCAA World Series
in Omaha because of the school's policy
of not playing ball on Sunday. The
NCAA, which was then involved in
considerable controversy because of the
BYU stand, later relented, setting up
schedules that would avoid any Sunday
playoff games. But for this group, it
was too late.

296

(Top)

Members of the Brigham Young Uni-
versity 1965 baseball team stand at
attention during the playing of the
Mexican and United States national
anthems before a game in Mexico City
during a tour of Latin America. The
Cougars have made several baseball
tours, junketing also to Alaska and
Hawaii and in 1974 playing a series of
games on a successful tour of Italy.

(Bottom left)

In the winter of I960, baseball Coach
Glen Tuckett was in his freshman year
as Cougar baseball coach. Indoor prac-
tice at that time of year was fashionable.
Tuckett has since guided the Cougars to
ten division titles, three conference
championships, and two NCAA district

seven crowns. The Cougars have never
had a losing season under Tuckett, who
was also nominated "Professor of the
Year" once for his classroom techniques.

(Bottom right)

BYU golf Coach Karl Tucker, back row
left, and members of his squad had a lot
to cheer about in 1966. The Cougars
were undefeated in dual competition
(10-0) that year and went on to capture
the Western Athletic Conference cham-
pionship. Members of the team were
(kneeling) Mike Taylor, Buddy Allin;
(standing) Coach Tucker, Jack Chap-
man, Johnny Miller, and Kean Ridd.
Allin went on to win many meets as a
professional, and Johnny Miller became
one of the top golfers of the world,
winning the U.S. Open in 1973. In

1974 he tied Arnold Palmer's record of
eight first-place tournament wins in a
season, including the World Open, and
became the all-time top money winner
for one year on the professional tour,
with $351,121 in tournament prizes.

297

(Top left )

For Coach Fred Davis (right) and his
wrestlers, the easiest part of the 1966
season was unpacking the conference
championship trophy. It was Davis's
second year as head wrestling coach at
BYU, and his subsequent teams were
WAC champions eight out of the next
nine years. Two of the wrestlers pic-
tured are Mac Motokawa (left), four-
time WAC champion, and Mike Young
(next to Davis), two-time conference
champion.

(Top right)

The University hosted several major
NCAA events during the sixties, in-
cluding the national wrestling cham-
pionships in 1969. In March of that
year Provo and BYU campus became the
center of college wrestling, with scores
of wrestling fans and contestants jour-
neying to BYU for the finals. Six mats
covered the basketball floor of the
George Albert Smith Fieldhouse, and
several others were needed in the annex.

(Center)

The David O. McKay Award for Ath-
letic Excellence was presented to five
LDS Church members of world fame at
a banquet held on March 9, 1970, at
BYU. Honored at the event were Billy
Casper, left, winner of almost every top
golf title, including the U.S. Open, the
Western Open, Golfer of the Year in
1966 and 1968, the Vardon Trophy five
times, and Ryder Cup team member
four times; Vernon Law, BYU faculty
member and former pitcher with the
Pittsburgh Pirates, winner of the Cy
Young Award given to the outstanding
pitcher in the major leagues in 1960 (the
same year the Pirates won the World
Series, largely on his pitching); L. Jay

298

Silvester, BYU faculty member and
world record holder in the discus throw,
who placed fourth in the Tokyo Olym-
pics in 1964 and fifth in the Mexico
City Olympics in 1968; and Gene Full-
mer, former middleweight boxing
champion of the world. Absent was
Harmon Killebrew, leading home run
hitter for the Minnesota Twins and
Most Valuable Player in the American
League in 1968.

(Opposite page, bottom)

Floyd Millet, second from right, former
director of athletics at BYU, arranged an
All-American banquet on October 1,
1970, for many of the top BYU athletes.
He posed here with Ralph Mann, left,
track and field star who was holder of
the world record in the 440-yard inter-
mediate hurdles and winner of three
consecutive All-American honors;
Doug Howard, former All-American
baseball player; and Joe Richey, All-
American basketball player in 1953.

(Top left)

One of only four persons to receive the
rank of Distinguished Professor up to
1974 was Dr. Virginia F. Cutler, Dis-
tinguished Professor of family eco-
nomics and home management, who
headed the Home Economics Depart-
ment at the University of Utah from
1946 to 1954 and was dean of the BYU
College of Family Living from 1961 to
1966. While working for the U.S. In-
ternational Cooperative Administration
she lived for two years in Bangkok,
Thailand, and five years in Jakarta, In-
donesia. She served as head of the De-
partment of Home Science at the Uni-
versity of Ghana, Africa, from 1966 to
1969. Here she shows African dress,
jewelry, and artifacts.

(Top right)

H. Tracy Hall, the first man ever to
produce synthetic diamonds in the
laboratory, observes his tetrahedral
X-ray diffraction press, which uses a
beam of X-rays to probe matter while it
is subjected to temperatures and pres-
sures approaching those inside the earth
and the stars, repacking the atoms to
create materials which are unknown in
nature. Dr. Hall came to BYU in 1955
as professor of chemistry and director
of research, leaving a position as re-
search associate at General Electric
Company in Schenectady, N.Y., where
he had succeeded in making diamonds.
At BYU he continued his experiments
with the development of a more efficient
machine on an altogether different
principle. His research has led far be-
yond the synthesis of diamonds into
discoveries in geology, solid-state
physics, chemical synthesis, and engi-
neering. The work gained worldwide
attention, and in 1964 he went to Paris
to install a machine for the French
government. Brigham Young University
has accorded him the rank of Distin-
guished Professor, and he has received
the honors of many organizations, in-
cluding the Modern Pioneers in Crea-
tive Industry Award of the National
Association of Manufacturers and the
Chemical Pioneer Award of the Ameri-
can Institute of Chemists.

(Bottom)

Another of the University's four Dis-
tinguished Professors is Dr. Antone K.
Romney, Distinguished Professor of
comparative and international educa-
tion, who joined the BYU faculty in
1945 and served at various times as
dean of the College of Education, vet-
erans affairs coordinator. Counseling

Service chairman, professor of philos-
ophy of education and guidance, dean
of students, and acting dean of the
College of Humanities and Social
Sciences. In his extensive experience in
studying educational systems of the
world, he was a member of the pro-
fessional teams that studied education
in Russia in 1958 and 1960, investi-
gated education in Japan and Korea in
1959, and in 1962 toured ten African
nations. He also conducted field studies
in the United Arab Republic, New
Zealand, Australia, India, Jordan, Israel,
Spain, and West Africa.

299

(Left)

Dr. Stewart L. Grow, Distinguished
Professor of political science joined the
History and Political Science faculty in
1947 and was appointed first chairman
of the separate Department of Political
Science in 1956, serving until 1961. In
1959-60 he was also acting dean of the
Graduate School, and students elected
him "Professor of the Year." He be-
came first director of the Institute of
Government Service in 1961, serving
until 1970. Before joining the BYU
faculty he served in the U.S. Treasury
Department; as assistant to Congress-
man J.W. Robinson of Utah and Senator
John H. Overton of Louisiana; as ad-
ministrative officer. War Production
Board; as senior administrative officer.
Office of Price Administration; and as a
major in the Army Air Force organiza-
tional planning and management con-
trol in World War II.

(Right)

President and Mrs. Wilkinson were
presented to the audience by President
Harold B. Lee at an assembly held on
March 9, 1971, when President Wilkin-
son's resignation was announced. On
that occasion a resolution of the Board
of Trustees honoring President Wilkin-
son was read, expressing appreciation
"for his deep and lasting contributions
to Brigham Young University and to
education in the Church Educational
System; with acknowledgement to the
thousands of lives affected by his
leadership, and special appreciation for
his devotion and his vigor in pursuing
quality as well as growth."

After brief remarks in which he ac-
knowledged the guidance of the Board
and the quality of the students. Presi-
dent Wilkinson said, "I would be remiss
on this occasion if I did not acknowl-
edge the total and loving support of my

sweetheart whom I first met on this
campus fifty years ago. During my
tenure at this university, I know that I
often made enemies, but she has always
made friends. I am indebted to her for
our five children, for their training,
discipline, scholarship. Church activity,
and testimonies, and I am grateful that
not one of them by his or her conduct
has ever been anything but a blessing
to us."

300

Thrust toward
Excellence

Dallin Harris Oaks was only thirty-
eight years old in 1971 when he left a
position as professor of law at The Uni-
versity of Chicago to become the eighth
president of Brigham Young University.
He was nationally prominent in the
profession, serving as executive director
of the American Bar Foundation, the
research affiliate of the American Bar
Association.

Announcement of the appointment
was first made to the University com-
munity at an assembly in the George
Albert Smith Fieldhouse on May 4,

1971, held under the direction of Presi-
dent N. Eldon Tanner, second counselor
in the First Presidency of the Church,
and Dr. Kenneth H. Beesley, associate
Church commissioner of education. On
that occasion. President Oaks said, "A
university is a place of learning. Its
fulfillment comes in the communica-
tion of truth to a receptive mind. Its
most noble participants are the dedi-
cated teacher and eager student. I
challenge anyone to show me a greater
concentration of dedicated teachers
and eager students than are present on

this campus."

Dr. Oaks took over his duties on
August 1, 1971, and was inaugurated
in formal ceremonies in the Fieldhouse
on November 12, 1971.

He was born in Provo on August 12,
1932, a son of Dr. Lloyd E. Oaks (a
physician) and Stella Harris Oaks, both
BYU graduates. When President Oaks's
father died in 1940, Mrs. Oaks reared
her two sons and a daughter alone,
taught high school, and became prom-
inent in civic affairs, serving as super-
visor of general and adult education for
Provo City Schools, a member of the
City Council for two terms, assistant
mayor, and acting mayor. Dallin H.
Oaks married June Dixon in 1952. They
now have five children.

Dallin H. Oaks graduated from BYU
with high honors in 1954 in accounting
and economics. At the University of
Chicago Law School he received the
Doctor of Law degree (J.D.) in 1957,
cum laude, second in a class of 86, and
was named to the Order of the Coif. In
his senior year he was editor-in-chief of
The University of Chicago Law Review.

He began his legal career as law clerk
to Chief Justice Earl Warren of the U.S.
Supreme Court, then practiced three
years with a large Chicago law firm,
specializing in corporate litigation.

In 1961 he became associate pro-
fessor of law at the University of Chi-
cago and served at various times as
associate dean and acting dean. He
spent the summer of 1964 prosecuting
criminal cases as Assistant State Attor-
ney of Cook County, and the summer
of 1968 as visiting professor at the Uni-
versity of Michigan. In 1969 he was
chairman of a University of Chicago
faculty committee that resolved dis-
ciplinary charges against over 150 stu-
dents summoned after a sit-in at the
university administration building.

He has conducted major studies of
state and federal court administration
and of the provision of legal services for
the United States Department of Justice,
the Judicial Conference of the United
States, and the Office of Economic Op-
portunity. He was legal counsel to the

302

Bill of Rights Committee of the Illinois
Constitutional Convention, where he
had an important role in writing the
Bill of Rights for the new Illinois con-
stitution adopted in 1970. He is a mem-
ber of the bar in Illinois and Utah and
has been admitted to practice in the U.S.
Supreme Court and other federal courts.

Dr. Oaks has published more than
thirty articles and four books dealing
with church and state, trust law, the le-
gal profession, and criminal procedure.
He is secretary and director of the Amer-
ican Association of Presidents of In-
dependent Colleges and Universities, a
member of the Visiting Committee of
The University of Chicago Law School,
of the American Bar Association Com-
mittee to Survey Legal Needs, of the
Advisory Council of the Woodrow
Wilson International Center for Schol-
ars, and of the Advisory Committee of
the National Institute of Law Enforce-
ment and Criminal Justice.

In Chicago he was LDS stake mission
president and second counselor in the
Chicago South Stake Presidency. He is
currently a regional representative of
the Council of the Twelve Apostles.

The dynamic young President took
the reins firmly and wasted no time in
implementing bold new programs and
policies. With hardly time to get his
feet wet, he adopted a new calendar of
three semesters (the third divided into
spring and summer terms), made plans
for new buildings, involved students in
fund raising, discontinued two colleges,
and reorganized two others, reem-
phasized the University's no-nonsense
policy on dress and behavior, set up
programs to tighten and improve the
curriculum, and initiated a whole series
of moves to delegate authority to deans,
department chairmen, and faculty and
to clarify lines of operation.

During his administration up to 1975,
four projects have been started (the J.
Reuben Clark Law School Building, the
addition to the Harold B. Lee Library,
an addition to the Bookstore, and the
Centennial Carillon), and four buildings
have been dedicated (the Marriott
Center, the Engineering Science and

Technology Building, the James E.
Talmage Mathematics and Computer
Science Building, and the Joseph K.
Nicholes Chemistry Stores Building).

Soon after arriving. President Oaks
undertook a comprehensive fact-finding
task, and conducted intensive visits to
every college. President Oaks made a
great many revisions as a result of those
visits:

— He split the College of Physical
and Engineering Sciences to form the
College of Engineering Sciences and
Technology and the College of Physical
and Mathematical Sciences.

— He discontinued the College of
Industrial and Technical Education and
transferred its programs to other col-
leges.

— He changed the name of the
General College to the College of Gen-
eral Studies and transferred ROTC and
the Honors Program to that College.

— He transferred the Computer Sci-
ence Department, previously unat-
tached to a college, to the College of
Physical and Mathematical Sciences.

— He split the Department of En-
vironmental Design and transferred its
program to two new departments, the
Department of Interior Design in the
College of Family Living and the De-
partment of Art and Design in the Col-
lege of Fine Arts and Communications.

— He merged the two-year and four-
year nursing programs.

— He discontinued baccalaureate and
associate degrees in genealogy.

— He dissolved the College of Reli-
gious Instruction and involved faculty
from every college in teaching religion
so that it was not confined to one seg-
ment but became University-wide.

— He eliminated credit for devo-
tionals and forums and reduced assem-
blies to Tuesdays only, with the Thurs-
day hour reserved for seminars.

All of these changes and many more,
he said, were in keeping with his goals:
"first, to reinforce our drive for excel-
lence as an academic institution, and
second, to preserve the distinctive
spiritual character and standards of
BYU."

In addition to his regular duties and
the demanding schedule of his reorgani-
zation, he found time to make more
than fifty speeches during his first year,
from New York to Hawaii, and spent
great amounts of time organizing the
new J. Reuben Clark Law School.

"I am disposed to delegate authority,"
President Oaks said. "I believe in hold-
ing deans and department heads re-
sponsible for the conduct of their pro-
grams, and I expect high quality per-
formance. At the same time, our execu-
tives need to be given the administra-
tive authority and fiscal control neces-
sary to produce those results."

Accordingly, he revised budget pro-
cedures and completely reorganized all
committees, councils, and boards who
do much of the University's work. He
also established a Faculty Advisory
Council by popular election and also an
Administrative Advisory Council to
represent nonfaculty personnel. In ad-
dition, new retirement policies were
adopted, new retirement benefits in-
stituted, and formal policies stated for
the appointment and retention of faculty
members.

From the beginning. Dr. Oaks's
friendly, unruffled, and gentle yet firm
personality endeared him to faculty and
students, and his keen ability to cut
quickly and logically through problems
while showing confidence and concern
for faculty and students won their re-
spect and admiration.

303

(Top left)

Dallin H. Oaks as a football player for
Brigham Young High School.

(Top right )

With their furniture still stacked on the
lawn in front of the President's Home
on campus. President and Mrs. Dallin
H. Oaks confer with upholsterer John
Paulson while waiting for the home to
be renovated during the summer of
1971.

(Bottom)

The family inauguration portrait, taken
in the President's Home on BYU cam-
pus in 1971, shows President and Mrs.
Dallin H. Oaks with their family:
Dallin D., 11, and TruAnn, 9, seated
beside their parents; and standing,
Cheri, 17, Lloyd, 14, and Sharmon, 18.

(Opposite page, top)

President Dallin H. Oaks, right, at his
inauguration as eighth president of
Brigham Young University on Novem-
ber 12, 1971, in the George Albert
Smith Fieldhouse. President Joseph
Fielding Smith, second from right, pre-
sided at the services; President N.
Eldon Tanner, left, second counselor in
the First Presidency of the Church,
conducted the program; and President
Harold B. Lee, then first counselor in
the First Presidency, conducted the in-
stallation of Dr. Oaks and delivered the
charge. President Lee told the new
president to "reach into that spiritual
dimension, for answers, which, if you
seek earnestly, will secure for you not
only our blessings but the sublime wit-
ness in your heart that your acts, your
life, and your labors have the seal of ap-
proval of the Lord and creator of us

t I/I/////1

wW lit

I//I

§§

all." President Oaks, in his response,
asserted that BYU exists to prepare and
encourage young men and women to
rise to their full potential as sons and
daughters of God. "We have passed

through a period of extraordinary
growth at BYU. We are entering a
period of maturing, deepening, refining,
and upgrading the quality of all our
efforts," he concluded.

304

(Center)

Dr. Edward H. Levi, left, president of
the University of Chicago, delivered
the inaugural address at the inaugura-
tion of President Oaks. Dr. Levi, who
became U.S. Attorney General in Feb-
ruary, 1975, emphasized that univer-
sities cannot preempt — they can only
assist — "the search for truth that can
add values which arise from their mis-
sion." Other speakers were Neal A.
Maxwell, commissioner of Church edu-
cation; Reed N. Wilcox, student body
president; Don M. Alder, president of
the Alumni Association; and Dr. Jae R.
Ballif, chairman of the Faculty Advisory
Council. Music was furnished by the
BYU Philharmonic Orchestra and
Oratorio Choir.

(Bottom)

On inaugural day for President Oaks,
hundreds of administrators, faculty, and
guests lined up in the annex of the
Fieldhouse for the procession to the
main auditorium. For the formal occa-
sion dignitaries and honored guests
wore the academic caps and gowns sig-
nifying their positions. Attending were
hundreds of representatives of colleges,
universities, and scholarly societies
from throughout the United States and
abroad, who marched into the Field-
house according to the founding dates of
their institutions.

305

(Top)

Sitting on the front row, the Oaks chil-
dren were engrossed in the important
ceremonies involving their father at his
inauguration: Lloyd, left; Cheri, Shar-
mon, Dallin D., and TruAnn.

(Center)

Women of the family proudly watch as
Dr. Oaks is inaugurated as eighth presi-
dent of BYU: Mrs. Dallin H. Oaks, left;
her mother, Mrs. True C. Dixon; Presi-
dent Oaks's mother, Mrs. Stella H.
Oaks; and her mother, Mrs. Chasty O.
Harris.

(Bottom)

The Wilkinson Center ballroom was
filled with guests for the luncheon and
reception honoring President and Mrs.
Oaks following the inaugural cere-
monies.

(Opposite page, top left)

A new BYU flag, designed by Alex
Darais of the art faculty, right, and
made by the “Betsy Ross" of the BYU
Campus Couture, Jerry Campbell, left,
was first flown at the inauguration of
President Oaks. Professor Darais's de-
sign was chosen from among dozens of
entries submitted in the competition
and reviewed by BYU executives and
the Office of the Church Commissioner
of Education. The flag consists of two
horizontal stripes in the school's colors
of white and royal blue. “BYU" appears
in blue modified block letters on a white
background on the lower half of the
flag. The traditional symbol of the bee-
hive appears in gold on the blue upper
portion, along with the University
motto, “The Glory of God is Intelli-
gence." Although BYU previously had
other flags, none could be found for the
inauguration.

306

( Top right)

The three living presidents of BYU met
in the Archives Department of the
Harold B. Lee Library in October, 1972,
to discuss the history of the University.
Holding photos of all the BYU presi-
dents are Howard S. McDonald, left;
Ernest L. Wilkinson, and Dallin H.
Oaks.

(Center)

Project LIFE (Living in a Free Environ-
ment), a project aimed at encouraging
personal fitness through jogging and
other physical activity, was launched in
the spring of 1972 when President and
Mrs. Dallin H. Oaks led the way for
students and faculty by jogging around
the Smith Fieldhouse track. Seen get-
ting away at the starting line are Presi-
dent Oaks, center, with Mrs. Oaks to
his right, and Dean Milton F. Hartvig-
sen of the College of Physical Educa-
tion at his left. Behind him is basketball
Coach Glenn Potter.

(Bottom)

President Oaks, left, and Professor
James Barton (civil engineering), chair-
man of a task force on conservation of
energy, prepare to turn down the cam-
pus distribution valves in the heating
plant. During the winter of 1973-74, a
time of shortages because of oil em-
bargoes, BYU complied with a White
House request and a national movement
to keep rooms heated only to 68 de-
grees, to reduce driving speeds to 55
miles per hour, to turn out all lights not
in use, and to cut off all fans and motors
not absolutely needed.

307

(Top left)

While eager freshmen look on. Presi-
dent Oaks throws the first bucket of
whitewash on the block "Y" during
orientation week, 1974, reviving the
tradition of refurbishing the big letter
with student muscle via the bucket
brigade. During the previous two
years only a few students had partici-
pated, aided by helicopters and per-
sonnel from the Physical Plant Depart-
ment. After the big job the students
were served soda pop and watermelon
at the base of Y Mountain.

(Top right)

President Oaks gives his daughter
Sharmon (Mrs. Jack Ward) a con-
gratulatory hug at Commencement
exercises in April, 1974.

(Bottom)

President Oaks was the speaker at the
dedication of three buildings on Febru-
ary 19, 1974. Dedicated were the Engi-
neering Sciences and Technology

Building (where these services were
held), the James E. Talmage Mathe-
matical Sciences and Computer Build-
ing, and the Joseph K. Nicholes Chem-
istry Stores Building. On the stand
also were, left: Dr. Armin J. Hill, dean
of the College of Engineering Sciences
and Technology; Dr. Jae R. Ballif, dean
of the College of Physical and Mathe-
matical Sciences; Dr. Robert K. Thom-
as, academic vice-president; and Bruce
L. Olsen, director of University Rela-

tions; right, back row: Fred A. Schwen-
diman, assistant business vice-presi-
dent; Dr. J. Elliot Cameron, dean of
student life; Dr. Gary Carlson, Com-
puter Center director; Sam F. Brewster,
director of the physical plant; front row,
Elder Delbert L. Stapley, who presided
and gave the dedicatory prayer; John R.
Talmage, son of James E. Talmage;
former BYU President Ernest L. Wilkin-
son; and Dr. Henry J. Nicholes, son of
Joseph K. Nicholes.

308

(Top left )

The Chemistry Stores Building, named
in honor of Joseph K. Nicholes at the
ceremonies on February 19, 1974, was
completed in the fall of 1970 and is
located between the Eyring Science
Center and the Martin-Widtsoe Life
Sciences Center, serving both areas. It
is specifically designed for the storage
and dispensing of chemistry supplies
and equipment. About 15,000 items are
stocked, serving 462 academic courses.

The building contains many special
features, such as the glassblowing
room, the acid dispensing stockroom,
the liquid nitrogen generation rooms,
spark-free blowers, glass pipes, and
bulk solvent storage.

Professor Nicholes was a chemistry
teacher at BYU for forty-four years and
was former president of Dixie College.
He played a major role in the design of
the Eyring Science Center. BYU con-
ferred on him the Honorary Doctor of

Science degree in 1961, and he received
the Karl G. Maeser Distinguished
Teaching Award in 1959.

(Top right)

One of the most interesting sections of
the Nicholes Building is the glassblow-
ing laboratory, where Bruno Szalkow-
ski, who learned his skill in Germany,
creates all types of complicated glass
equipment for chemistry, physics, and
biology laboratory experiments.

(Bottom)

Construction of the James E. Talmage
Mathematical Sciences and Computer
Building began in February, 1970, in an
area between the Jesse Knight Building
and the Smith Family Living Center.
The three-story structure houses the
BYU computer Research Center and
office of Institutional Research, in addi-
tion to the academic departments of
Computer Science, Mathematics, and
Statistics. Also included in its 61,000
square feet of floor space are com-
puter rooms, staff offices, "debugging”
rooms, key punch rooms, storage rooms,
five lecture rooms, and twenty-five
classrooms.

309

/■

(Top)

Dr. Armin J. Hill, dean of the College of
Engineering Sciences and Technology,
left, and assistant dean Dick W. Thur-
ston were all smiles about the new Engi-
neering Sciences and Technology Build-
ing, seen below them in the campus
panorama (March 1974). The new
building opened its doors to classes for
the first time in the fall semester of
1973. It is located across the mall east
from the Life Sciences Center and just
south of the Harvey Fletcher Laboratory
Building. Construction began in the
spring of 1971. The building houses
the Departments of Civil, Chemical,
Electrical, and Mechanical Engineering
as well as Technology and elements of
Computer Services. It has 167,000
square feet of floor space on five stories,
and its dimensions are 260 by 200 feet.
There are ninety offices, eleven lecture
rooms, a computer complex, and eighty-
two engineering and technology labora-
tories.

( Center )

Included in the many Engineering Sci-
ences and Technology Building labora-
tories is the spacious concrete labora-
tory of the Civil Engineering Depart-
ment. There in 1974 Professor Arnold
Wilson developed a two-inch-thick
concrete roof poured over a large um-
brella-like structure covering 800
square feet — enough for a two-bed-
room home.

(Bottom)

The site chosen for the Marriott Center
north of the Smoot Administration
Building was formerly occupied by 150
temporary war surplus homes of Wy-
view Village, which were moved to the
location from Mountain Home Air
Base, Idaho, in 1957. When the village
was removed to make way for the big
arena, 150 new trailer homes for
married students were erected on North
University Avenue west of the Stadium
and called "Wyview Park.”

310

(Top)

Wyview Park, constructed to accommo-
date married students after Wyview
Village was removed to make way for
the Marriott Center.

(Center)

The gigantic Marriott Center, largest
auditorium building on any campus in
the United States, was started during
the spring of 1970 under the adminis-
tration of President Ernest L. Wilkinson
and was opened for its first event, the
BYU Classic, on December 3-4, 1971,
under the administration of President
Dallin H. Oaks. In its first year, the
23,000-seat arena enabled BYU home
basketball games to exceed the all-time
national attendance record by more
than 5,000 persons per game. The
building measures 380 by 340 feet and
covers nearly three acres, enough space
to place two football fields side by side.
The construction contract was let in
December, 1969, to Kent Tolboe, Tolboe
Construction Company, Salt Lake City.
“The outstanding feature of the build-
ing is its size," said Robert Fowler,
architect. “It is approximately 25 per-
cent larger than any other campus
arena in the country."

(Bottom)

The gigantic roof of the Marriott Center
was constructed on the ground. The
completed single-span spaceframe is
the largest of its kind in this country,
weighing four million pounds and
covering 130,000 square feet. After
being assembled with 50,000 bolts, it
was lifted into position by thirty-eight
hydraulic jacks at the rate of eight feet
per day for two weeks. The top of the
roof is 100 feet from the playing floor
with enough space between for a ten-
story building.

311

(Top left)

On a cold day, October 26, 1970, after
a small procession of cheerleaders, stu-
dents, faculty, and dignitaries had
marched to the site of the Marriott
Center and heard speeches, President
Ernest L. Wilkinson pushed a button
which started hydraulic jacks lifting the
huge space frame.

(Top right)

The fund-raising committee posed in
front of the steel roof superstructure of
the Marriott Center before it was lifted
into place. Members were, front row,
left to right: Dee Olpin, Floyd Taylor,
Verl Clark, Max Elliott, DaCosta Clark
(chairman), Calvin Swenson, Ralph
Kuhni, and Robert Leishman; second
row: William Sorensen, Richard Call,
DeLynn Heaps, Stan Watts, Charles
Peterson, Frank Gardner, Mack Hay-
cock, Ariel Ballif, Paul Gehring, and
Jack Allen.

(Bottom left)

The Marriott Center was constructed
from the top down. After the single-
span steel roof was hoisted into place.

the earth was excavated from under it
and the concrete seating structure
poured.

(Bottom right )

This construction photograph shows
the webbing which underlies the Mar-
riott Center basketball floor to give it
resiliency. The big scoreboard and
sound system also hang from cables,
ready to be hoisted into place. The
elaborate sound system was designed
by C. P. Boner, who also designed the
sound system for the Houston Astro-
dome. The Marriott Center system has
more than twenty miles of cable wiring
and 304 outlets for microphones. The
central cluster below the scoreboard
weighs 8,000 pounds and stands thir-
teen feet high.

312

watches." Mr. Marriott, founder of a
nationwide chain of restaurants and
motels, donated more than $1 million
toward the construction of the Marriott
Center, named in his honor. BYU
conferred the Honorary Doctor of Laws
degree on Mr. Marriott in 1958, and the
BYU Associated Students chose him for
the Exemplary Manhood Award in
1964. He was a boyhood associate of
BYU President Ernest L. Wilkinson in
Ogden, and they served together in the
Washington Stake Presidency of the
LDS Church.

(Top)

More than a basketball pavilion, the
Marriott Center is also used as a music
hall for concerts, as a theater for pag-
eants and folk dance festivals, and as an
auditorium for assemblies, devotionals,
forums, conferences. Church gatherings,
and conventions. This photograph was
taken during commencement exercises.
The large seating capacity does not
hinder the spectator's view. The 789
seats on the top row have a sight span

to the jump circle of 200 to 210 feet,
only a few feet farther than a similar
measurement from the Smith Fieldhouse
top row.

(Bottom)

Early in the 1971-72 basketball season,
Mr. and Mrs. J. Willard Marriott at-
tended a basketball game and were
recognized at halftime by veteran
Coach Stan Watts, who presented them
with what he called "million-dollar

313

(Top)

The official dedication of the Marriott
Center was a two-day event, February
3 and 4, 1973. On Saturday night Mr.
and Mrs. J. Willard Marriott attended a
basketball game in which BYU defeated
the University of Utah. The couple was
photographed at the game with Presi-
dent and Mrs. Dallin H. Oaks, left, and
Ben E. Lewis, BYU executive vice-
president, lifelong friend who formerly
was associated with the Marriott enter-
prises. On the following day the formal
dedication ceremonies were held, with
many Church dignitaries participating.
Others singled out for recognition dur-
ing the halftime of the basketball game
were Dr. DaCosta Clark, chairman of
the fund-raising committee; Stan Watts,
BYU athletic chairman and former
basketball coach for twenty years,
whose teams filled both the Fieldhouse
and the Marriott Center; Sam Brewster,
director of the Physical Plant Depart-
ment; Dr. Ernest L. Wilkinson, former
president of BYU for twenty years, un-
der whose administration the building
was started; and Ben E. Lewis.

(Center)

These happy fans are typical of crowds
that have filled the Marriott Center for
many events and that have broken all
national attendance records. Photo
courtesy of Don Grayston, Deseret
News.

(Bottom)

Students pour out of the Marriott Cen-
ter portals following an assembly in
October, 1974.

314

moved there from the George Albert
Smith Fieldhouse. The procession
moves from the Smoot Administration
Building, over the spiral ramps to the
Marriott Center, where it divides and
passes before the faculty. The graduates
enter from the east and the west to
speed entry to the building.

(Top left)

At the formal dedication of the Marriott
Center on February 4, 1973, J. Willard
Marriott, left, was commended by
Church President Harold B. Lee. All
members of the First Presidency of The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints were present. President Lee pre-
sided and conducted; President N.
Eldon Tanner, first counselor, was a
speaker; and President Marion G.
Romney, second counselor, gave the
dedicatory prayer. Other speakers were
President Dallin H. Oaks and Ben E.
Lewis, BYU executive vice-president.

Included on the program was a recorded
message from President Richard M.
Nixon, saluting Mr. Marriott, who was
chairman of the Nixon inauguration
celebrations in 1969 and 1973.

(Top right )

Two graceful, spiraled ramps were con-
structed to bridge the campus drive and
serve as walkways to the Marriott
Center.

(Bottom)

After completion of the Marriott Center
in 1971, Commencement exercises were

315

(Top)

This is the architect's drawing of the
addition to the Harold B. Lee Library,
started with groundbreaking ceremonies
on October 29, 1974. The addition,
scheduled to be completed by October,
1976, is being built just south of the
original building and will more than
double the library facilities. It will have
two floors below level and four above,
and will add 225,000 square feet of
floor space to the existing 205,000
square feet. Capacity will be increased
from one million to two million volumes,
with seating for 5,000 persons. There
will be about forty small-group study
rooms and a large lecture room on the
sixth floor, where staff offices and work
areas will be located.

(Center)

A wide-angle lens captured the happi-
ness of BYU officials in March, 1974, as
they examined a model of the addition
to the Harold B. Lee Library and re-
ceived approval to continue with plans:
Donald K. Nelson, left, director of li-
braries; Dr. Robert K. Thomas, aca-
demic vice-president; President Dallin
H. Oaks; Sam Brewster, director of the
physical plant; and Ben E. Lewis, execu-
tive vice-president. Prospects of a
library addition spurred BYU students,
led by the Student Development Asso-
ciation, to conduct numerous fund-
raising projects designed to achieve a
one-million-dollar student contribution
toward the new facility. Their activities
have included breakfast-in-bed service,
wakeup service, jogging partners, bowl-
ing lessons, hot dogs, Christmas trees,
and even a Santa Claus service.

(Bottom)

Groundbreaking ceremonies for the ad-
dition to the library were held October
29, 1974, on the south side of the orig-
inal library building. Wielding the
shovels were Mrs. Helen Goates, left,
daughter of President Harold B. Lee;
Mrs. Lee; Elder Gordon B. Hinckley of
the Council of the Twelve Apostles, who
was the speaker for the occasion; BYU

President Dallin H. Oaks; Sam Brewster,
former director of the Physical Plant;
Dr. Robert K. Thomas, academic vice-
president; Executive Vice-President Ben
E. Lewis; Dr. Bruce B. Clark, dean of the
College of Humanities; Fred A. Sch wen-
diman, newly appointed director of the
Physical Plant; Darrel J. Monson, as-
sistant academic vice-president; and
Donald K. Nelson, director of libraries.

316

economics concepts while reading for-
mulas and instructions. The lecture can
be repeated as many times as necessary
to grasp the topic, and it can be stopped
at any point, permitting the student to
proceed at an individual pace. Dr.
Robert J. Parsons spearheaded the de-
velopment of fifty-one sound sheet lec-
tures for use in economics classes.

(Top left )

Babysitting chores were combined with
work as hundreds of BYU students con-
ducted the first student telefund in his-
tory in April, 1972, for the benefit of
the new addition to the Harold B. Lee
Library. Encouraged by President Dal-
lin H. Oaks, about forty student volun-
teers manned a battery of telephones
each night for several nights and con-
tacted 14,826 students, about 67 per-
cent of the student body. In the first
drive they set a goal of $10,000 but
netted $35,000. By the end of 1974 the
students had raised $180,000 of a
$1,000,000 goal.

(Top right)

David Gallacher, director of the Library

Learning Resource Center, and part-
time student worker Janene Worsley
check the large bank of audio tapes
connected to a unique, new computer in
the library (1974). By dialing the re-
quested information, a student in the
Center can obtain video or audio lessons
or both.

(Bottom)

Pam Wilson, a sophomore in business
education from Driggs, Idaho, uses the
new "sound page" system installed in
the library in 1974 for studying eco-
nomics. The system includes a special
sensitized sheet with writing on one
side and a recording on the back. Stu-
dents can check the sheets out in the
library and listen to explanations of

317

(Top)

These library executives were in a
happy mood as they viewed the Catalog
of the Stars by seventeenth-century as-
tronomer Johannes Hevelius, a valuable
manuscript that was the millionth
volume added to the library in October,
1971. From left to right are Chad Flake,
curator of special collections; Donald K.
Nelson, director of libraries; Donald T.
Schmidt, assistant director of libraries;
and A. Dean Larsen, assistant director
for collection development. Special
activities to mark the acquisition of the
millionth volume included a forum as-
sembly in the Fieldhouse on October
28, at which Dr. Arthur Henry King
was speaker; a luncheon for persons
who helped with the purchase of the
manuscript; a lecture on the work; a
panel discussion; and a display of the
volume in the library. The volume is
one of hundreds of valuable collections
in the library.

(Center)

An electronic book detection system —
similar to the systems used in airports
to detect weapons — was installed in
the Harold B. Lee Library in January,
1975, speeding up service to library
patrons and helping to protect the li-
brary's holdings by eliminating the
need to examine briefcases and other
containers manually. In this "Tattle-
Tape” system, books are equipped with
sensitized tape which sounds an alarm
if they are not checked out at the desk.

( Bottom )

Rex E. Lee, left, who was appointed first
dean of the J. Reuben Clark Law School
in November, 1971, and Bruce C. Hafen,
assistant to the president, who was also
involved in the organization of the new
Law School, examine a model of the J.
Reuben Clark Law School Building.
Plans to establish the Law School at
BYU were announced by President
Harold B. Lee, then first counselor in
the First Presidency of the Church, at
an assembly on March 9, 1971, in the
George Albert Smith Fieldhouse. Resig-
nation of President Ernest L. Wilkinson

318

was announced at the same meeting.
The first law students were admitted
and classes began in the autumn semes-
ter of 1973. The school will eventually
have an enrollment of 500.

(Top)

The inscription on the building is "St.
Francis of Assisi School"; the sign in
front of the building states, "Brigham
Young University J. Reuben Clark Law
School." The building housing the dis-
continued Catholic school was leased by
the BYU Law School in 1972 to provide
space for offices, library, and class-
rooms, pending the completion of the
new J. Reuben Clark Law School Build-
ing on campus east of the Ernest L.
Wilkinson Center, in September, 1975.
Even while it was in a state of organiza-
tion, the new BYU Law School assem-
bled an outstanding library in the
leased building which exceeded the
collections of over half of the law school
libraries in the United States.

(Center)

In spite of the wind and cold. Dean
Rex E. Lee of the J. Reuben Clark Law
School spoke at groundbreaking cere-
monies for the new Law School Build-
ing on Law Day, May 1, 1973. On this
bone-chilling, wind-whipped day the
event was held in the parking lot east of
the Wilkinson Center. Speakers were
Sam Brewster, director of the Physical
Plant Department; Elder Ezra Taft Ben-
son of the Council of the Twelve
Apostles; BYU President Dallin H.
Oaks; and Dean Lee. Dean Lee, Presi-
dent Oaks, and Elder Benson climbed
aboard a huge bulldozer as it scooped up
the first earth of the excavation.

(Bottom)

This was the scene at the first class of
the Law School on August 27, 1973,
which was taught in the Pardoe Drama
Theatre of the Harris Fine Arts Center,
marking the formal opening of the
school. The speakers were President
Marion G. Romney, second counselor in
the First Presidency of the Church, and
BYU President Dallin H. Oaks.

319

(Top)

This is how the J. Reuben Clark Law
School Building appeared in the sum-
mer of 1974 while the overpass to the
structure was under construction.
Dedication is scheduled for September
5, 1975, as a major feature of the BYU
Centennial celebration. The building
will serve not only as the home of the
Law School but also as a meeting place
for four student branches of the LDS
Church. The School will have a library
of 250,000 volumes. Special seating
arrangements in five of the six main
lecture rooms will place students in
face-to-face juxtaposition, which will
promote more interaction in classes.
The moot court room will be the only
room to use the concentric seating that
is traditional with most law schools.
Another feature will be 420 carrels for
individual study.

(Center)

As it reaches its Centennial, Brigham
Young University is an academic city of
more than 300 buildings, serving a
faculty and staff of more than 3,000 and
a student body of 25,000 in hundreds of
specialized functions.

(Bottom)

President Spencer W. Kimball of The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints announced at commencement
services of the Church College of Hawaii
on April 13, 1974, that the 1,000-stu-
dent college would become a branch of
Brigham Young University, beginning
fall semester, to be known as Brigham
Young University-Hawaii Campus. Dr.
Dan W. Andersen, academic dean at the
college, was appointed dean of the
campus, to report directly to BYU
President Dallin H. Oaks. The BYU-
Hawaii Campus was founded by the
Church in 1955 as a four-year liberal
arts college, offering degrees in teacher
education, business, family living, and
industrial education. Dr. Kenneth H.
Beesley, associate commissioner of
Church education for colleges and
schools, said, "This change will allow
the tapping of the appropriate resources

• • _

320

of BYU in the improvement of planning
and implementation of programs at the
Hawaii Campus.”

(Top left)

In September, 1968, the Ironton Plant
of the U.S. Steel Corporation (con-
structed by Columbia Steel in 1923-24)
was donated to Brigham Young Uni-
versity for the development of an in-
dustrial park on the site. The gift in-
cluded 386 acres of land and many in-
dustrial buildings, including two blast
furnaces, two banks of coke ovens, a
compressor building, a steam plant, a

sintering plant, a pig machine, a power
station, a loading tower, a hammer mill,
railroad trackage, locomotive repair
shops, and much more. In July, 1969,
BYU awarded the contract for disman-
tling the plant to the Lerner Company
of Oakland, California. After much
planning and study for the development
of an industrial park on the site, BYU
announced in July, 1971, indefinite
postponement because geographic and
physical problems on the site appeared
to make the economics of the project
unfeasible.

(Top right)

The building of a temple by The Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints near
the BYU campus was a development of
great interest to the administration, the
faculty, the staff, and the students of
Brigham Young University. Eleven
General Authorities of the Church
joined with thirty Provo area stake
presidents in breaking ground for the
edifice north of BYU campus on Sep-
tember 15, 1969. In the absence of
President David O. McKay, President
Hugh B. Brown presided and turned the
first shovelful of earth, left, along with
President Joseph Fielding Smith and
Elder Gordon B. Hinckley of the Coun-
cil of the Twelve Apostles. BYU stu-
dent wards and stakes participated in
the fund-raising effort for the construc-
tion of the temple. Most of the physical
arrangements and the planning for the
groundbreaking event were handled by
BYU officials.

(Bottom)

This was the scene at the cornerstone
laying for the Provo Temple on May 21,
1971, at which President Joseph Field-
ing Smith presided.

321

(Top)

The Provo Temple of The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was
opened for showing to the general pub-
lic from January 10 to 29, 1972, and
was dedicated on February 9, 1972, in
two sessions, with overflow crowds
accommodated in the Marriott Center
and the George Albert Smith Fieldhouse.

(Bottom)

Elder Ezra Taft Benson of the Council
of the Twelve Apostles operated a huge
bulldozer to break ground for the
Church's new Language Training Mis-
sion north of BYU campus on July 18,
1974. Present also were other members
of the Council of the Twelve Apostles,
the First Council of Seventy, the Church
Department of Education, and city and
county officials. Hundreds of mission-
aries of the Language Training Mission
at BYU formed a missionary chorus for
the occasion. The program was con-
ducted by Ben E. Lewis, executive vice-
president of BYU. Project chairman was
Fred A. Schwendiman, then BYU as-
sistant business vice-president and later
director of the Physical Plant Depart-
ment. The facility is scheduled for
completion on June 30, 1976, and will
comprise eight buildings, including
classrooms, administrative offices,
residence, dining, study, and recrea-
tional facilities.

322

(Top)

The new Language Training Mission
will centralize training for all non-
English-speaking missions, which pre-
viously has been divided between three
campuses. The BYU unit has taught
Afrikaans, Spanish, French, German,
Italian, Portuguese, Tahitian, and
Navajo. Ricks College has taught
Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish,
and Finnish. The BYU-Hawaii Campus
has trained missionaries in Japanese,
Korean, Cantonese, Mandarin, Thai,
Samoan, and Tongan. Church officials
said the Language Training Mission
was constructed at BYU to take ad-
vantage of its extensive language ca-
pacity and large-scale institutional
operations. The University will provide
the management of food service,
housing, laundry, building maintenance,
and other services.

(Bottom)

Missionaries of the BYU Language
Training Mission bow in prayer at the
groundbreaking for the new Language
Training Mission.

323

(Top left)

Gathered near the 2,000-pound bronze
cougar near the BYU stadium are Ath-
letic Director Stan Watts, left; the artist,
Avard Fairbanks, who sculpted the
statue with his son, Justin; football
Coach LaVell Edwards; and Student
Body President Reid Robison. The huge
statue, which was cast in Italy, was
placed on a stone pedestal near the
stadium in time for the BYU-Utah State
University football game on September
21, 1974. A plaster model was com-
pleted by the artists in 1965, and, since
funds were not available at that time for
a bronze casting, the plaster cougar
was mounted on the pylon for several
years. The cougar is a gift of the classes
of 1965 and 1969.

| 'i 1 1 1 n [1 i:P

1 'M

B i

(Top right)

Construction of an addition to the Wil-
kinson Center Bookstore was started
just before the opening of the autumn
semester of 1974, and the textbook de-
partment had to be moved. To accom-
modate the department, a big circus-
type tent was erected on the west patio
of the building adjacent to the Book-
store. The big-top fitted snugly into
the space, and, with its red and white
stripes, added a festive atmosphere to
the campus.

(Center)

Physical Education Day in 1971 fea-
tured numerous demonstrations of
physical activity on the lawns of the
upper quads during class changes.

(Bottom)

As a feature of Agriculture Week each
year at BYU, the College of Biological
and Agricultural Sciences sponsors live-

324

stock-judging competition for high
school members of the Future Farmers
of America. Here the young experts
take notes while inspecting swine at the
BYU farm in 1972.

(Top left)

On May 18, 1972, BYU students Roger
Billings (wearing tie) and Dennis Larsen
(right) adapted an automobile to run on
hydrogen and demonstrated it on a
campus parking lot. That year they
won the clean-air contest of the National
Urban Vehicle Design Competition in
Detroit, far exceeding federal standards.

constructed by members of the BYU
First LDS Stake as their initial MIA
(Mutual Improvement Association)
activity of the 1972 school year. The
gigantic confection extended 1,573 feet
south of the Smith Fieldhouse to beat a
previous record of 1,400 feet set earlier
that year in Anchorage, Alaska. In
continuous dishes it contained 2,400
bananas topped by 280 gallons of ice
cream (more than a ton) and the stu-
dents' own toppings. It vanished in
fifteen minutes. The entire length of the
huge split was inspected by Provo Fire
Chief Stan Brown, who verified its size
for the Guinness Book of World Records.

( Bottom )

On October 13, 1972, for the Founder's
Day assembly, a huge 97th birthday
cake was lighted by President Dallin H.
Oaks, past President and Mrs. Ernest L.
Wilkinson, Student Body President Bill
Fillmore, and 1972 Homecoming
royalty Ruth Ann Brown (left), Jana
Rae Warren, and Queen Michiko
Nakamura.

(Top right)

The world's longest banana split was

325

(Top)

An exciting development in the 1970s
has been the presentation of the "World
of Dance" program each spring, com-
bining four dance groups in a staging of
the full range of the world's dances.
Organizations participating are the BYU
Corps de Ballet, the Orchesis, the Ball-
room Dance Team, and the Interna-
tional Folk Dancers. This photograph
of an Orchesis group contrasts vividly
with those of gossamer dance groups in
the 1920s.

(Center)

Also featured in the "World of Dance"
concerts was the Brigham Young Uni-
versity Theater Ballet.

(Bottom)

Each summer about twenty BYU ar-
chaeology students and several faculty
members pack their sleeping bags, bid
goodbye to civilization, and for eight
weeks descend into the remote but
beautiful Montezuma Canyon in south-
eastern Utah to reconstruct the un-
written past of the Anasazi Indian cul-
ture, which at one time covered the
whole Four Corners area of Utah, Ari-
zona, New Mexico, and Colorado. The
students are members of the BYU Field
School of Archaeology, started in 1969
by Dr. Ray T. Matheny. It is an eight-
week, six-semester-hour course giving
students on-site experience in excava-
tion, restoration practices, survey tech-
niques, and laboratory procedures as
used in archaeology. In this 1973
photograph the group is excavating a
kiva (Pueblo council room).

(Opposite page, top)

An important center of culture in the
Mountain West, Brigham Young Uni-
versity's many concert halls and
theaters provide the finest fare for fine
arts patrons, including hundreds of
performances each year by outstanding
campus and international artists. In
this 1971 BYU production of "Die
Fledermaus," Adele (Ruth Ann Mc-
Combs) and Eisenstein (Terry Mc-
Combs) are amazed at each other's

326

identities as Dr. Falke (Bob Lauritzen)
laughs at the success of his joke.

(Center)

On May 26, 1972, Royce Swenson,
center, became the one thousandth
cadet to be commissioned in the Air
Force ROTC program at BYU. Present-
ing the plaque noting this event was
General John C. Meyer, left, com-
mander of the Strategic Air Command,
who also administered the commission-
ing oath and spoke to the newly com-
missioned officers. Colonel Richard
Baldwin, right, professor of aerospace
studies at BYU at that time, directed the
commissioning services. Lieutenant
Swenson, a native of Pleasant Grove,
Utah, happened to be in the right place
on the alphabetical list of sixty grad-
uates who were commissioned.

( Bottom )

One of the popular developments in the
curriculum in the 1970s was the Out-
door Survival Program, formally offered
in a course listed as Youth Leadership
480 but also utilized by many other
departments in various forms. Those
who join the program learn quickly
that life can be less than comfortable at
times — hot under the parching noon-
day sun, bitter cold at night, and taxing
in trying to reach a goal. In the accom-
panying photograph a survival group in
the summer of 1974 was moving
through a difficult canyon in Southern
Utah.

Supplied with a blanket and a small
cache of basic foodstuffs, survivalists
experience aches, pains, and fatigue and
learn to live with blisters as they tra-
verse nearly 300 miles of desert and
mountain terrain during the thirty-day
trek. One leader said, "Many youths
and adults never have the experience of
a personal encounter with nature.
Learning to grapple with the elements
is one of the most exciting, strengthen-
ing, and character-building encounters
to be found in life."

327

(Top)

Ruth, left, and Judith Leonardini,
identical twins from Bolivia, arrived at
BYU in June, 1973, as a result of a
promise fifteen years earlier by then
Vice-President Richard M. Nixon. Dur-
ing a visit to a medical clinic in La Paz
in 1958, Mr. Nixon took the three-year-
old girls in his arms and promised their
mother they would be able to attend
an American university when they
grew up. The incident did not come up
again until Judith mentioned it to a
reporter who was interviewing her
when she graduated at the top of her
high school class in La Paz. The story,
picked up by the United Press Interna-
tional wire, came to the attention of
President Nixon. Twenty-eight uni-
versities offered the twins scholarships,
but the girls, who had been converted
to the LDS Church, chose to attend
BYU. They registered for the 1974
winter semester as social-work majors.

( Center )

Chosen queen to reign over Home-
coming festivities in 1974 was Sandi
Smith, center, a senior from San Jose,
California, majoring in special educa-
tion. Her attendants were Kerry Harris,
left, a sophomore majoring in dance
from Mesa, Arizona, and Kathy Norris,
a junior majoring in dance from El Paso,
Texas.

(Bottom)

Assignment: Take a water-filled bal-

loon, propel it 200 feet, and hit the
Dean of Student Life. That was the
challenge for engineering students dur-
ing Engineering Week in February,
1974. The simplest way proved to be
the best as the first three places were
won by teams using oversized slingshot
devices. The first place team headed by
Larry Ball received a prize of $25. Dean
J. Elliot Cameron escaped without a
direct hit but was splashed several times.

328

( Bottom )

On their tour of campus on May 5,
1971, members of the BYU Board of
Trustees, their partners, and BYU ad-
ministrators saluted the flag and sang
the national anthem at ceremonies con-
ducted by the Air Force and Army
ROTC cadets at the flagpole south of
the Smoot Administration Building.

(Top)

For the first time since 1962, the BYU
Board of Trustees met on campus on
May 5, 1971, to conduct their regular
monthly meeting and make a tour of
campus. In this formal photograph are,
seated, left to right: Elders LeGrand

Richards, Delbert L. Stapley, Mark E.
Petersen, Spencer W. Kimball (later
Church President), and Harold B. Lee
(later Church President); Church Presi-
dent Joseph Fielding Smith; President
N. Eldon Tanner; Elders Gordon B.
Hinckley, Boyd K. Packer, Marion D.
Hanks, and A. Theodore Tuttle; Bishop

John H. Vandenberg; standing: Dee F.
Anderson, Joe J. Christensen, and
Kenneth H. Beesley of the Office of
Commissioner of Church Education;
former BYU President Ernest L. Wil-
kinson; and newly appointed President
Dallin H. Oaks.

329

(Top left)

On September 11, 1973, Church Presi-
dent Harold B. Lee received the Exem-
plary Manhood Award of the Associated
Students at a packed assembly in the
Marriott Center. An inscribed silver
tray was presented to the Prophet by
Mark Reynolds, student body president.
President Lee told the students that
their blessings are contingent upon
obedience to God's laws and urged
them to follow those who preside in the
Church.

(Top right)

Church President Spencer W. Kimball,
photographed here on September 17,
1974, with President Oaks in the
Marriott Center, received the Exemplary
Manhood Award of the BYU Associated
Students, presented by Reid Robison,
student body president. In his address
to the capacity audience in the 23,000-
seat auditorium. President Kimball cau-
tioned the students to determine what
they want in life, and to bend every
effort toward reaching that goal.

(Center left)

Dr. Stephen L. Wood, left, and Dr.
Vasco M. Tanner, professor emeritus, of
the Zoology Department examine some
of the more than 900,000 specimens in
the insect collection at BYU, which
ranks among the best in America. Since
1925 the insects have been gathered in
the field, mounted on pins or glass
slides, catalogued, and filed in some
2,000 wooden trays and hundreds of
slide boxes. Included are tiny beetles
less than one millimeter long and giant
moths and bugs from Africa with wing
spans in excess of six inches. Dr. Tan-

ner said BYU is a center for identifica-
tion for scientists throughout the
country.

(Center right)

In 1972 Warren Wilson of the Art and
Design Department started an unusual
summer class which has gained great
popularity. His students lived like pre-
historic Indians for ten days in the
mountains east of Springville, using the
old arts of making pottery by hand with
any materials that could be found. They
made their own tools, mined and re-
fined their own clays, formed their own
pots, and fired them in pits as ancient
peoples did for centuries.

( Bottom)

Examining part of his collection of
ancient instruments is J. Homer Wake-
field, professor emeritus of music, who

330

has collected ancient instruments since
1937 and who was the man primarily
responsible for a revival of ancient in-
strumental music at BYU and in Utah.
Here he holds a viola da gamba. The
other instruments are, clockwise, a
harpsichord, a tenor zinck, a cornamuse,
a krummhorn, a hurdy gurdy, and a
lute.

(Top left)

Dr. Harold Glen Clark (standing) was
appointed president of the Provo
Temple in 1971, after serving as dean
of the Division of Continuing Educa-
tion for twenty-five years. He was suc-
ceeded by Stanley A. Peterson (seated),
a former administrator at the University
of Southern California and chairman of
the BYU California Center. The Divi-

sion of Continuing Education, which
began with Lowry Nelson in 1922 as
the Extension Division, was an organi-
zation of seventy-five full-time em-
ployees at the time of the change. It en-
rolled about 150,000 students in Home
Study, Travel Study, Bachelor of In-
dependent Studies, Evening Classes,
Special Courses and Conferences, Edu-
cation Weeks, off-campus lectures, and
extension centers in Salt Lake City,
Ogden, Idaho Falls, and Los Angeles.

(Top right )

Dr. Wilmer W. Tanner, zoology pro-
fessor and curator of the BYU Life Sci-
ences Museum, examines a beautiful
tiger trophy received by the museum in
1973. The specimen is part of one of
the finest collections of mounted ani-

mals in the United States. The collec-
tion contains eighty valuable items
from Africa, Asia, and North America.
Monte Bean, a Seattle businessman,
donated these to the museum. Other
important collections given to the Life
Sciences Museum in 1973 included
thirty-one head mounts and prepared
skins given by Mr. and Mrs. Max A.
Bench of Chatsworth, California, and
eighteen specimens given by Mrs. Cleo
Lillywhite of Covina, California.

(Bottom)

Examining ancient documents in Brig-
ham Young University's library are
associates of the Institute for Ancient
Studies, organized by President Dallin
H. Oaks at BYU in August, 1973. In
the front row, from left to right, are
Professors Thomas W. Mackay, Hugh
Nibley, and R. Douglas Phillips; back
row: Professors Richard L. Anderson,

S. Kent Brown, Wilford Griggs, and
Ellis R. Rasmussen. The Institute was
established to develop and disseminate
information about ancient manuscripts
of religious significance. "The Institute
will give scholars an important means
of acquisition, loan, and use of manu-
scripts and contacts with authorities in
the field throughout the world," Dr.
Nibley said. The University possesses
a large collection of ancient documents.

331

(Top)

This centuries-old man-made stone
ball from Costa Rica was placed on dis-
play outside the Joseph Smith Memorial
Building in 1974. Dr. Paul R. Chees-
man, in photo, says such spheres have
mystified archaeologists because of their
precise workmanship and because of
the lack of any information as to their
use. Some weigh sixteen tons and are
eight feet in diameter. This one weighs
about one ton.

(Bottom)

A high point in the 1974 musical season
was the presentation on the stage of the
de Jong Concert Hall of The Restora-
tion, an oratorio on a grand scale com-
posed by Dr. Merrill K. Bradshaw (at
the piano). Dr. John R. Halliday, sec-
ond from right, conducted the per-
formances, assisted by Dr. Ralph G.
Laycock, left, who prepared the BYU
Philharmonic Orchestra; Dr. Ralph
Woodward, conductor of the A Cappella
Choir; and Dr. Clayne Robison, director
of the University Chorale. The Res-
toration, which called not only for the
massed choir and orchestra but also an
angelic choir off-stage, was two years in
reaching completion and represented
the first major oratorio in the LDS
Church in twenty-five years.

I \

332

(Top)

When President Oaks took over the
reins at BYU, the Office of Admissions
and Records was pushing industriously
for computerized registration to avoid
the time-consuming long lines and the
frustrations of previous years. By 1974
computerized registration was com-
pletely in operation. Students filed
class choices in advance each semester,
and their academic programs were
worked out by computer. At registra-
tion time they needed only to pay fees
and pick up their schedules. Class rolls
were in the hands of teachers on the
first day of classes. Here Erlend D.
Peterson, assistant dean, instructs Mary
Carter in the use of the computer
terminal.

(Bottom)

An interesting study in the various
styles of academic costumes seen on
Brigham Young University campus is
this photograph of the April 1974
commencement. Major Edward Oker-
lund, left, of the Air Force ROTC con-
tingent, is dressed in military uniform;
Dr. Spencer J. Condie, sociology, wears
the traditional cap, gown, and hood of
the American doctor of philosophy; and
Dr. Arthur Henry King of the English
Department is attired in the formal high
hat and cutaway coat of the Swedish
doctoral degree, which he obtained at
Lund University in Stockholm.

333

(Top left)

The number of male nurses has been on
the increase during the 1970s. Here
Maxine Cope, dean of the College of
Nursing, instructs Dean Rich, a senior

from Evanston, Wyoming, in how to
pass a nasal gastric tube into the stom-
ach. He was one of about thirty men
enrolled in the nursing program in 1974.

(Top right)

Dr. Darrell Weber (wearing glasses)
and Dr. Bill Hess, professors of botany,
examine fungal spores with the aid of
one of the electron microscopes on BYU
campus. Their work on the ultra-
structures of spores was reported at a
world conference of scientists at BYU
in the summer of 1974, the Second In-
ternational Fungal Spore Symposium.

(Bottom left)

Nelson A. Rockefeller, then vice-presi-
dential designate, addressed a capacity
audience in the Marriott Center on
October 2, 1974, filling in for President
Gerald R. Ford, who had to cancel his

speaking engagement because of his
wife's illness. Present on the stand
were, right to left: BYU President Dal-
lin H. Oaks, Church President Spencer
W. Kimball, Elder Boyd K. Packer of
the Council of the Twelve Apostles, and
Neal A. Maxwell and Robert L. Simp-
son, assistants to the Council of the
Twelve. Also on the stand were student
leaders and Utah political figures. Mr.
Rockefeller discussed the problems of
world inflation.

(Bottom right)

Education teamed up with space science
in 1974 as workmen placed a ten-foot
disc on top of the Harris Fine Arts
Center to receive signals from a satel-
lite broadcasting a live educational
program dealing with career education
for junior high school students in the
intermountain area.

334

(Top)

Dr. Lorin F. Wheelwright, right, a noted
Utah music educator, composer, editor,
publishing executive, and civic leader,
became dean of the College of Fine Arts
and Communications in 1967. He
founded the annual Mormon Festival
of Arts in 1969 to give artistic expres-
sion to Mormon culture, beliefs, and
values through compositions, musical
performances, plays, operas, painting,
writing, and other art forms. When he
was appointed in 1973 as assistant to
the president in charge of the Centen-
nial observance, he was succeeded as
dean by Dr. Lael J. Woodbury, left,
former chairman of the Department of
Speech and Dramatic Arts and noted
actor, director, writer, and speaker.

(Center)

A symphony orchestra provided the
music for the 1974 Mormon Arts Ball in
the colorfully decorated grand gallery of
the Harris Fine Arts Center. Before the
dancing, a program featured concert
violinists, pianists, and vocalists as well
as the Philharmonic Orchestra and
A Cappella Choir. Throughout the
evening Mormon artists performed one-
act plays, concert recitals, readers
theaters, and multi-media presentations
in the various halls and theaters
throughout the building.

(Bottom)

Numerous new artists' works have
premiered at the annual Mormon Festi-
val of Arts. For example, this was a
scene from The Order is Love, a play
by Carol Lynn Pearson, shown at the
1971 Festival.

335

(Top left)

In October, 1973, BYU physicists an-
nounced development of what they be-
lieve may be an important theoretical
breakthrough in the 20-year-old inter-
national problem of containing thermo-
nuclear plasma — a first major step
toward obtaining fusion energy. Here
Dr. Robert W. Bass, a member of the
team headed by Dr. John Hale Gardner,
then chairman of the Physics Depart-
ment, shows a schematic model of the
design. A new characteristic of the
BYU fusion device design is known as
topological stability, from which the
name "Topolotron" was derived. BYU
filed patents in the United States and
in many foreign countries.

(Top right )

In 1971 the American Alumni Council
(AAC) presented to Brigham Young
University the Ernest T. Stewart Alumni
Service Award, the highest award given
by that organization for outstanding
alumni volunteer service, in recognition
of the BYU Admissions Adviser Pro-
gram. Under this program BYU alumni
are appointed and trained in almost
every stake of the LDS Church to advise
students contemplating attendance at
BYU. The silver bowl award was re-
ceived at the national convention of the
AAC in Washington, D.C., by Bruce L.
Olsen, left, then director of the Ad-
missions Adviser Program in the Office
of Admissions and Records (he later be-
came director of University Relations),
and presented to Ronald G. Hyde, di-
rector of alumni relations.

(Center)

Barry Goldwater, senator from Arizona
and Republican candidate for the United
States presidency in the 1964 elections,
visited BYU campus several times. In

336

this photograph he was talking with
students in the Wilkinson Center after
an address. At his left is Mark Rey-
nolds, 1973-74 student body president.

(Opposite page, bottom)

In the summer of 1973 women grounds-
keepers showed up on the BYU campus
for the first time — laying sod, plant-
ing, running power lawnmowers, and
trimming trees. Here Denise Richards
lays sod, rather heavy work usually
reserved for men. Supervisors on the
grounds crews said the women students
were excellent workers.

(Top)

Senator Edmund S. Muskie of Maine
visited the BYU campus in 1968, when
he was a vice-presidential candidate,
and also in December, 1974, as a special
lecturer in the American Perspectives
series. Here he is interviewed in
KBYU-TV studios by Jay Monsen,
assistant director of Broadcast Services.

(Bottom)

Bat boys, for decades so familiar in
baseball for picking up bats and foul
balls, were replaced by bat girls at BYU.
These girls, who made it hard for the
players to keep their eyes on the ball,
were declared "All-American Bat Girls"
in 1973 by Collegiate Baseball maga-
zine. Members were Peggy Carroll,
left; Marsha Petersen, Lorraine Conger,
Jodee Clark, Maiy Ann Miller, Linda
Forbes, Vicki Beal, and Sue Hefford.

337

(Top left)

Sedigheh Salim, 21, whom her class-
mates renamed "Sadie," was a chemical
engineering student from Tehran, Iran,
in 1973; she was as much at home in
the laboratory as in the kitchen. The
pretty girl scientist was the first woman
ever to earn a chemical engineering
degree at BYU. She graduated at the
top of her class.

(Top right)

Anne-Marie Roslof Hancock of Rauna,
Finland, was the first woman ever to
complete requirements for a bachelor's
degree in building construction tech-
nology at BYU. She was photographed
in 1972 with Lon Wallace, department
supervisor.

(Center)

Operating as a detective for BYU Se-
curity Police in 1973 was a lady officer
with the appropriate name of Diane Law.

(Bottom)

This BYU women's volleyball team
placed seventh in the national tourna-
ment held in Portland, Oregon, in De-
cember, 1974, before crowds of over
10,000 for each game. The BYU club
took the league play with a record of
12 wins and 1 loss, the regionals with a
6-0 record, and made a 4-3 record in the
nationals. Checking over some plays
with Coach Elaine Michaelis, front right,
are, left to right: Kellie Jones, Denise
Loo, Lae Loo, Becky Hannah, Kathy
White, and Malia Ane.

k jSa 5

f 1 !

338

(Top)

Coach Glenn Potter, who replaced Stan
Watts as basketball coach in 1972,
flashes signals to his players from the
bench. Potter guided the Cougars to a
19-7 season in his first year, and the
Cougars came very close to winning a
third straight WAC title. Potter came
to BYU from the University of Ne-
braska and was assistant to Watts for
two years before taking over as head
coach. His records were 11-15 in 1974
and 12-14 in 1975 for a three-season
total of 42-36. He resigned in 1975.

(Bottom left)

When the Cougars moved into the new
23,000-seat Marriott Center for the
1971-72 season, the star attraction was

6-foot 11-inch Kresimir Cosic. The
Yugoslavian player "did it all" on the
basketball court, winning all-conference
honors in the Western Athletic Con-
ference three years in a row. Most ob-
servers agree he was the most exciting
player the Cougars ever had. Cosic and
his teammates helped draw a record
261,815 fans to twelve home games
during the 1971-72 season. The per-
game average of 21,818 set a new na-
tional record, exceeding the old NCAA
mark by more than 5,000 persons per
game! BYU won the WAC champion-
ship for the second year in a row in
1972 and claimed another twenty-game
winning season.

(Bottom right)

Walking on shoes with high spikes, this
workman lays down urethane goo to
form the new all-weather running track
at the BYU stadium, replacing the
original track of rubberized asphalt.
The work was completed in September,
1974, requiring about a month of labor,
and the track was to have its first of-
ficial use in the spring of 1975, includ-
ing the annual Invitational Track Meet
and the National Collegiate Athletic
Association championships. It is the
only one of its kind in bright blue, and,
according to Coach Clarence Robison, it
provides not only resiliency and speed
but also a cushion for athletes' feet.

339

(Top left)

The running of Pete VanValkenburg
highlighted the play of the Cougars in
the early 7 0's. "Fleet Pete" led the na-
tion in rushing in 1972, nosing out
Arizona State's Woody Green for the
national title. In his senior year he
averaged 138.6 yards per game. Pete
had a total of 2,392 yards rushing in his
three years at Brigham Young, and was
the most productive scorer in the
school's history, scoring 27 touchdowns.
Dubbed the "Moving Van," Pete was
drafted by the Buffalo Bills and played
behind O. J. Simpson. He also played
with the Green Bay Packers and the
Chicago Bears.

(Top right)

The BYU football coaching staff in 1974
included, back row, left to right: Mel
Olson, Fred Whittingham, Tom Ramage,
Dewey Warren, J. D. Helm; front row:
Dick Felt, Head Coach LaVell Edwards,
Dave Kragthorpe. Coach Edwards, who
had served ten years on the BYU coach-
ing staff, took over head coaching duties
in 1972, and in his first year his team
made a 7-4 record for second place in
the Western Athletic Conference. In
1973 the team was 5-6 and tied for
fourth place in the WAC. In 1974 the
Cougars won the conference champion-
ship by tying Colorado State and de-
feating all other teams in the league,
including winning a third straight vic-
tory over Utah with a 48-20 score in the
final game at Cougar Stadium.

340

(Opposite page, bottom)

Gary Sheide, exciting BYU quarterback
in 1973-74, was often compared with
Joe Namath of the New York Jets.
There was a likeness on the playing
field, both wore number 12, both had a
tendency to slouch a little, both learned
how to live with injuries, and both knew
how to rifle the football to receivers. In
his first season at BYU, the transfer stu-
dent from Diablo Junior College became
number two passer in the nation and
third in total offense. In the 1974 sea-
son he was again number two in the
nation and tied a Western Athletic Con-
ference record of twenty-three touch-
down passes in one season, while lead-
ing the Cougars to the conference cham-
pionship. His 358 career completions
gave him another conference record.

(Top left )

With Coach LaVell Edwards, these
happy graduating seniors of the 1974
football team display the Western Ath-

letic Conference championship trophy
they clinched in defeating the Univer-
sity of Utah, 48-20, on November 23
and the "Y" blankets given to seniors
by the local Elks Lodge. It was the first
BYU conference championship in nine
years. At the same time the team re-
ceived the official invitation to play in
the Fiesta Bowl on December 28.
Players are Gary Sheide (12), Sam
LoBue (26), John Betham (41), Doug
Adams (45), Paul Linford (74), Tim
Mahoney (32), Larry Carr (67), Mike
Russell (28), Tom Toolson (85), Wayne
Baker (72), and Keith Rivera (73).

(Top right)

In the dressing room after the Cougars'
16-6 loss in the 1974 Fiesta Bowl,
President Oaks consoled Mark Giles,
BYU's other quarterback, who played
the entire game after Sheide was in-
jured. Giles played a heroic game in the
Cougar's losing effort, powering the
team in several long drives. The game

was closer than the score indicated:
10-6 down to the last minute in a de-
fensive battle that was telecast to mil-
lions nationally over Columbia Broad-
casting System. Coach LaVell Edwards
said, "We beat them physically," and
the Cougars led in almost every sta-
tistic but the score. BYU led in first
downs 17-14, passing yardage 181-77,
and the total yards 301-214. Courtesy
of Doug Martin.

(Bottom left)

BYU's Gary Sheide, the nation's num-
ber two quarterback, leaves the field
with his arm in a sling as a result of a
shoulder separation three minutes be-
fore the end of the first quarter in the
Fiesta Bowl game, December 28, 1974,
dimming BYU's hopes for a win in its
first football bowl game. He was as-
sited by Floyd Johnson, equipment
manager, left, and Dr. Robert W. Met-
calf, right, a Provo orthopedic surgeon.
Up to that point Sheide had engineered
the Cougars in two offensive drives,
both of which were capped by field
goals from the toe of Gary Usselman,
and the Cougars led 6-0 over the Okla-
homa State Cowboys, who had not
crossed midfield. Courtesy of Doug
Martin.

(Bottom right)

Frank Arnold, who had been an assis-
tant coach at the University of Califor-
nia at Los Angeles the previous four
years, was named head basketball
coach at BYU on March 13, 1975. Ar-
nold received his master's degree at
BYU in 1960 and was head basketball
coach at Brigham Young High School
from 1958 to 1962.

341

(Top left)

Paul Cummings, the first distance run-
ner from Brigham Young University to
break the four-minute barrier in the
mile, claimed several other firsts before
graduating in 1975. The spectacled
runner from Santa Maria, California,
was also the first Western Athletic Con-
ference track star to run the mile under
four minutes and the first miler from a
school in the state of Utah to meet that
standard of performance. The break-
through came during a meet at Tempe,
Arizona (Paul's birthplace), in March of
1974, when he was clocked in at 3:56.4.
Cummings continued to improve during
his junior year, capturing the mile at the
NCAA championships that summer in
Austin, Texas. During the winter sea-
son of his senior year, Paul ran the first
sub-four indoor mile in Western Athletic
Conference history.

(Center)

Gymnast Wayne Young crowned his
outstanding career by winning the
NCAA all-around championship on
April 4, 1975, at Indiana State Univer-
sity, the first athlete from the Western
Athletic Conference to win the title.
The athlete who takes the all-around
title is considered the best gymnast in
the NCAA, since he must perform in all
of the six individual gymnastic events.
Young has been recognized as the top
amateur gymnast in the United States
since the fall of 1974, when he qualified
for the number-one spot on the U.S.
Gymnastics team. He represented the
United States in international competi-
tion in Canada and South Africa and in
the World Games at Belgrade, Yugo-
slavia.

(Bottom)

Art Professor Alex B. Darais displays
the symbol he designed for the Brigham
Young University Centennial celebra-
tion, to be used on all graphic materials
involved with the observance, such as
letterheads, envelopes, pennants, decals,
printed programs, souvenirs, advertise-
ments, flags, and other items.

FRl 11TFULTREE ■ 197d^~ v

righam young university

342

(Top)

The central committee in charge of
planning and carrying out the ob-
servance of the BYU Centennial year
included Dr. Lorin F. Wheelwright,
front left, assistant to the president;
D'Ann Allred, secretary; Dr. George S.
Barrus, professor of communications;
Max C. Wilson, assistant to Dr. Wheel-
wright; and Edwin Butterworth, Jr.,
director of public communications.
They were assisted by Herbert E. Mc-
Lean, Provo advertising executive.

Planned for the celebration were a
monumental three-volume history of
BYU under the direction of BYU Presi-
dent Emeritus Ernest L. Wilkinson, a
pictorial history by Edwin Butterworth,
Jr., the construction of a bell tower, the
musical stage shows The Ballad of
Brigham Young and Right Honorable
Saint, a Centennial motion picture,
record albums, the opening of the Mae-
ser Building cornerstone, radio vig-
nettes, newspaper cartoons, the dedica-
tion of the J. Reuben Clark Law Build-
ing, supplements to newspapers, an
International Folk Dance Festival, a
1975 NCAA track meet, lectures, con-
certs, plays, operas, seminars, exhibits,
campus decorations, and much more.

(Center)

Students chosen to provide student rep-
resentation and plan Homecoming ac-
tivities for the Centennial year included
Dan Watson, left, Brian Johnson, David
Barrus (chairman), and LuAnn Call.
Here they study a map of the campus to
assist the general committee in planning
centennial banners on campus streets
and walks.

(Bottom)

The staff appointed to produce the
musical spectacular The Ballad of
Brigham Young as a finale to the Cen-
tennial year includes Dee R. Winterton
(physical education), left, choreography;
Max C. Golightly (dramatic arts), di-
rector; Arnold Sundgaard of Williams-
town, Massachusetts, script writer; Dr.
Karl T. Pope (dramatic arts), stage de-
sign; Dr. Ralph G. Laycock (music) mu-

343

sical director; and K. Newell Dayley,
composer. The extravaganza is sched-
uled to be produced in the Marriott
Center during April, 1976, an event
which is expected to play to about
12,000 spectators per night for about
ten nights.

Mr. Sundgaard is a nationally famous
lyricist and author of the well-known
Utah show Promised Valley and twenty-
five other successful musicals, plays,
and operas. Professor Dayley is a pro-
lific composer who has written, ar-
ranged, and orchestrated numerous
compositions for LDS Church organiza-
tions, motion pictures, stage shows, and
other events. "The Ballad of Brigham
Young is a composer's dream," he said.
"People will go away singing." The
other directors on the staff have also
been involved in scores of stage pro-
ductions.

(Top)

Production executives for the vast
amount of Centennial graphic and
printed presentations included Herbert
E. McLean, left, Provo advertising ex-
ecutive; Gail W. Bell, managing editor
of the Brigham Young University Press;
Paul Schuman, Printing Services man-
ager; and McRay Magleby, art director
of the Graphic Communications De-
partment. Here they study a model of
one of the many campus exhibits
planned for the Centennial. Plans in-
clude a time-line history exhibit on a
160-foot wall of the Marriott Center,
showing parallels in U.S., Church, and
BYU history; a Centennial concourse of
flags and a Centennial drive; displays
in various buildings illustrating the
three phases of the theme, "Dedicated
to Love of God, Pursuit of Truth, Ser-
vice to Mankind"; changing displays in
the Wilkinson Center Gallery; and ex-
hibits by each college.

344

gVvA A'

■ By-**]

(Opposite page, center)

Construction of a ninety-foot bell tower
and carillon was started early in 1975
on the brow of a small slope northeast
of the Abraham O. Smoot Administra-
tion Building as a major landmark to
commemorate the University's Cen-
tennial. Dedication was scheduled for
October 10, 1975. Designed by Provo
architect Fred L. Markham, the tower
will contain fifty-two bronze bells,
ranging from 21 to 4,730 pounds, cast
by the Petit and Fritsen Bell Foundry of
Aarle-Rixtel, Holland. The Centennial
emblem will be cast onto the surface of
the largest bell with this inscription:
“May These Bells Proclaim Forever Our
Gratitude to Those Who Founded and
to Those Who Sustain Brigham Young
University — Students, Alumni, Faculty,
Staff and Friends. Oct. 1975.”

( Opposite page, bottom)

On February 13, 1975, dressed in nine-
teenth century costume. President Dal-
lin H. Oaks rode on a scraper and drove
a team of giant Clydesdale horses to
break ground for the new Centennial
Carillon Tower. Provo Mayor Russell
Grange, Dr. Lorin F. Wheelwright (as-
sistant to the president and director of
the BYU Centennial celebration), and
others tried their hand at the vanishing

method of earth removal. Present also
were Fred Markham (architect) and a
representative of Paulson Construction
Company, contractors for the project.

(Left)

Dr. Ernest L. Wilkinson, front left, edi-
tor and director of the Brigham Young
University Centennial History project,
confers with some members of his
research staff. Assisting with the monu-
mental history project were, seated:
Karen S. Echols and Richard E. Bennett;
standing: James R. Clark, left; Harvard
Heath, Eugene T. Thompson, Linda W.
Lee, Janet W. Hansen, and W. Cleon
Skousen. Roy Bird (not present for the
photograph) managed the final prepara-
tion in the press.

Dr. Wilkinson accepted the gigantic
task late in 1971 and called the first
planning meeting of historians, li-
brarians, writers, researchers, and older
faculty members in January, 1972. The
staff researched staggering volumes of
faculty and board minutes, history
books, newspapers, yearbooks, diaries,
family records, archival files, letters,
and miscellaneous school publications
in the production of the comprehensive
three-volume history of the University's
first hundred years.

(Right)

As Brigham Young University ap-
proached its 100th commencement on
April 18, 1975, much attention was
given to the University's history and
mementos of the past. Here Dr. Robert
K. Thomas, academic vice-president,
displays a diploma that was awarded in
1900. The document, printed on vellum,
is nineteen by fifteen inches, compared
with the six-by-eight-inch diploma
awarded in the centennial year.

The 1900 diploma states: “The Board
of Trustees and the academical faculty
hereby confer on Elizabeth Harriet
Maiben, who has completed the pre-
scribed courses of instruction offered in
the Academy, the Degree of Bachelor of
Pedagogy. Dated the 31st day of May
in the year 1900."

It is signed by David John, vice-
chairman of the board; Wilson H.
Dusenberry, one of the original trustees
and then secretary of the board; George
H. Brimhall, acting president (while
President Benjamin Cluff, Jr., was on an
expedition to South America); and Ed-
ward H. Holt, secretary of the faculty.

At the top is a likeness of President
Brigham Young and the heading “Brig-
ham Young Academy," with an etching
of the Academy Building. The diploma
also carries a gold seal and is adorned
with gingerbread decoration.

345

(Top left)

The opening of the Maeser Memorial
Building cornerstone on April 17, 1975,
and the one hundredth commencement
on April 18, 1975, launched the year-
long Centennial celebration. Wearing
derby hats, in style over sixty years
earlier, Karl A. Miller, left, retired
Physical Plant Department employee,
and Dr. Lorin F. Wheelwright, assistant
to the President, removed a metal box
from the stone. Miller was present at
the original cornerstone laying on
October 16, 1909, when Church Presi-
dent Joseph F. Smith placed the box in
the stone (see page 61).

Dr. Wheelwright wrote both words
and music for the Centennial Hymn,
which was sung for the first time at the
hundredth commencement:

One hundred years, a moment's time
In Thy eternal day,

Yet like a prologue of the stars
They shine to light our way.

O, BYU, press on, press on,

In thy prophetic role;

O, lift our eyes to see the light
Of thy eternal goal.

O, help us gain eternal truth,

And power to serve mankind;

O, help us give to Christ, our Lord,

Our strength, our might, our mind.

With excellence we glorify
Our loyalty to thee;

We pray, O Cod, to know Thy will,

To build what ought to be.

(Top right )

A large crowd witnessed the opening of
the cornerstone box on the west side of
the Maeser Building. Professor Newell
Dayley played a trumpet solo, "O Ye
Mountains High," from the top of the
building. The Centennial octet sang
"The College Song" and "The Teacher's
Work is Done" (a memorial to Dr.
Maeser), both written by early BYU
poetess Annie Pike Greenwood.
Speeches were given by President
Dallin H. Oaks and Lynn S. Richards,
former Alumni Association president.
Dr. Wayne B. Hales was chairman and
master of ceremonies.

(Bottom)

Mrs. Ernest L. Wilkinson holds up an
American flag, the first item removed
from the box. Also assisting in display-
ing the memorabilia were Mrs. Harvey
Fletcher and Colleen Peppers, left. Cen-
tennial queen. The box contained also
BYU banners, coins, stamps, a pen and
a pencil, books of scripture, photo-
graphs of President William Howard
Taft and school officials, a view book of
Provo, pictures of athletic teams, stu-
dent registration cards, a faculty list,
scientific publications, newspapers,
magazines, copies of the deed of trust
and articles of incorporation, diplomas,
circulars, quarterlies, yells and songs,
and many other items.

346

Index

Abravanel, Maurice 288
Academic Review 21-22
Academy Building 35, 43, 193
dedication of 31
fountain near 40
lighting in 32
names of 31
Room D in 33
unfinished 25
A Cappella Choir 282-83
Adams, Doug 341
Adams, Joseph 49
Adams, Morgan 47
Adams, Pearl 45
Administrative Advisory Council
303

Agnew, Spiro T. 288
Agriculture Week 324-25
Air Force ROTC 199, 235-36,
237-38, 327, 329
Alder, Bryan 68
Alder, Don M. 305
Alleman, Ida 25, 36, 37, 40
Allen, A. Lester 239
Allen, Beulah Ream 206
Allen, Collin 277
Allen, Inez Knight 36,37,42,129
Allen, Jack 312
Allen, J. E. 84
Allen, Mark K. 116,175
Allen, R. Eugene 55, 129
Allen Hall 42, 129, 130
Allin, Buddy 297
"Alma Pater" 196
Allred, D'Ann 343
Allred, Dorald M. 208
Alpine Summer School 76,
114-18

Alta Mitras 148
Alumni Association 101
established 30

Alumni Association Aspen Grove
Family Camp 76, 114,
270-71

Alumni House 244
Amanda Knight Hall 42, 130
"The Amazon" 70
Ambrosich, Brian 289
Ancient instruments 330-31
Andelin, Olof W. 25, 33, 36, 37
Anderberg, Thilda 39
Andersen, Dan W. 320
Anderson, A. B. 38
Anderson, Alvan 70
Anderson, Dee F. 329
Anderson, Emily 68
Anderson, Hans 58
Anderson, Hyrum 21, 23, 25
Anderson, Kenneth 159
Anderson, Nels 121
Anderson, Nora 121
Anderson, Richard L. 331
Anderson, Walter 86
Andrus, J. Roman 138
Andrus, Wanda 164
Ane, Malia 338
Angel Flight 236
"Aphrodite and Adonis" 125
Apostol, Chris 290
Archaeology students 326
Army ROTC 199, 237-38, 329
Army Specialized Training
Program 165-67
Army Sponsor Corps 236
Arnold, Frank 341
Art class 32, 48
Art club 40
Art Department 40
Arts Building 57, 102
See also Missionary and
Preparatory Building
cafeteria 124
dedication of 57

Ashby, Bonna 150
Ashman, Albert J. 67
Ashworth, May 38
Asian Studies Program 199
Aspen Grove 75-77, 114-18
See also Alumni Association
Aspen Grove Family Camp
Asper, Frank W. 176
Athletics 39, 46-47, 161, 164,
184, 227, 289, 293
See also each sport
Atkinson, Charles L. (Chick) 290
Atomic reactor 246
Auto mechanics class 93
Auxiliary Supplies Building 247

Babb, Barbara 233
Babcock, Maud May 39
Bachauer, Gina 288
Bad Man, The 145
Baird, Sam 79
Baker, Wayne 341
Baldwin, Richard 327
Ball, Larry 328
Ball, Wilburn 160
Ballad of Brigham Young, The
343-44

Ballard, Howard 164
Ballif, Algie Eggertson 57, 63,

125

Ballif, Ariel S. 184, 208, 253, 312

Ballif, Arta 153

Ballif, Carma 117

Ballif, George S. 122, 161

Ballif, Jae R. 305, 308

Ballif, Mark 160

Ballif, Mrs. Ariel S. 208

Ballroom Dance Team 283, 326

Banana split 325

Bands 69,111,123,140

See also Cougar Marching Band
at Hotel Utah 141
in new uniforms 67
in parade 88

Banyan 64,84,94,143,149,150
Barney, Ralph 265
Barrus, David 343
Barrus, George S. 343
Barrus, Ray 295
Barton, James 307
Baseball 79, 296-97
Sunday playoffs 296
Basketball 57, 82, 83, 186
at BYA 47

with Coach Coty 163-64
with Coach Millet 192-93
with Coach Potter 339, 341
with Coach Romney 160
with Coach Teetzel 78
with Coach Twitchell 159
with Coach Watts 292-94
Bass, Robert W. 336
Bassett, Kathy 213
Bastian, Hans 50
Bateman, Bessie Spencer 68
Bateman, Lavar 133
Bat girls 337
Baxter, Hugh 79
Baxter, Lynn 79
Beach, Richard F. 178
Beach outing 85
Beal, Vicki 337
Beem, Ivan 192, 193
Bean, Jesse F. 70
Bean, Monte 331
Bean, Ross 122
Becenti, Victor 274
Beck, D. Elden 208
Beck, Elmer (Roy) 47
Beckham, Raymond E. 101, 239,
253, 276

Beckstead, Chad 162
Bee, Florence 70
Beesley, Kenneth H. 302, 320,
329

Begay, Edith 272
Begay, Nora 272
Belcher, Curg 291, 292

Bell, Gail W. 344
Bell, Old Y 193-95
Belle of the Y 226
Bell tower and carillon 345
Belnap, B. West 239
Bench, Mr. and Mrs. Max A. 331
Bennett, Richard E. 345
Bennion, Adam S. 110,115,238
Bennion, M. Lynn 117
Benson, Ezra Taft 245, 249, 293,
319, 322

as a student 128
Bentley, Harold 164
Bentley, Joseph T. 238, 239, 253
Berg, Edna 45
Berg, Wyman 70, 79
Berrett, Eleanor 210
Berrett, William E. 207
Berry, Eugene 46
Berryessa, Max 278
Betham, John 341
Bevan, Archibald 25
Bigelow, Margaret 210
Billings, Birdie 39
Billings, Lavon 122
Billings, May 220
Billings, Roger 325
Bird, E. 145
Bird, Forrest 162
Bird, R. Leo 46
Bird, Roy 345

Bishop, President of the Aaronic
Priesthood, The 224
Bishops' and Stake Presidents'

Day 231
Black, Don 264
Black, Mitchell 50
Blacksmithing shop 58
Blake, Lois 121
Bleeding Heart, The 76
Blood drive 238
Bolton, Herbert Eugene 110
Boner, C. P. 312
Booke, Kim 265
Bookkeeping class 39
"Book of Mormon Oratorio" 139
Booth, Alfred L. 21
Booth, A. L. 23
Booth, Alfred E. 25
Booth, Delilah 86
Booth, Edith Young 68, 256
Booth, J. E. 25
Booth, John E. 65
Booth, J. W. 38
Booth, Lillian C. 210
Booth, Malcolm 164
Booth, Ralph 103
Boren, Pearl 71

Boston Symphony Orchestra 284
Bowers, Wes 167
Bowman, Othello 79
Boyack, David 255
Boyce, Russell 167
Boyer, Dell 66
Boyer, Paul 144
Boyle, Albert C. 182
Boyle, William H. 119
Bradford, Reed 278
Bradshaw, Merrill K. 332
Brewster, Sam F. 208, 242, 244,
316, 319

at dedications 308, 314
Brewster Physical Plant Building
244

Brickers 148, 229
Brigham Young Academy 345
See also Brigham Young
University

Alumni Association reunion
for 48

Art Department 30
bachelor's degrees offered at
52

becomes Brigham Young
University 31
becomes a Church school 33
boarding houses at 24
board of trustees 9
dedication of 15
deed of trust for 10
enrollment at 17, 21

executive committee of 18
faculty of 21, 22, 23, 33, 44,

faculty salaries at 34
financial difficulties of 23, 30
founding of 9
incorporators of 33
principals of 9, 24, 25
student body of 21
Brigham Young Academy Choir
45

Brigham Young University
See also Brigham Young
Academy

associate degrees offered at 199
becomes accredited 97
Board of Control 122
Board of Trustees 97, 101, 240,
329

Centennial 342-46
Centennial theme 344
Deans Council 137
Diamond Jubilee of 181, 182,
200

doctor's degrees offered at 199
enrollment at 53, 96, 165, 169,
173, 199

faculty of 85, 102, 103, 115,
117

faculty quartet 102
faculty women at 104
financial difficulties of 53, 97
master's degree offered at 52
on semester system 199
Semi-Centennial of 110-12
stakes, wards, and branches at
199, 238-39

1200 N. entrance to 277
Brigadiers 148, 149
Bright, Barry 227
Brimhall, Alsina Elizabeth Wilkins
54

Brimhall, Andrew 85
Brimhall, Flora Robertson 54
Brimhall, George Henry 38, 60,
61, 112, 345

in academic costume 70
biography of 52-53
with Board of Trustees 101
at commencement exercises 65
with faculty 23, 25, 33, 44, 55,
85, 102
home of 99

at inauguration of Pres. Harris
98

with lecturers 74
organized BYU Women 209
as president of Alumni
Association 30
as president of BYU 52-53
song written by 92
as a speaker 110, 126
with wife 54
Brimhall, Jennie 38
Brimhall, Silas 41
Brimhall Building 53, 92, 101,
129, 132, 139

See also Mechanic Arts Building
Bringhurst, William 9, 12
Brinley, Eldon 160
Brinton, Bonna Ashby 150
Britsch, Ralph 101, 145, 152
Britsch, Todd 268
Britt, Lyndon 233
Broadbent, Thomas L. 137, 168
Broadbent, Violet Long 68
Brockbank, Archie 79
Bronson, Vie 38
Brooks, George 79
Brooks, Melvin 239
Brown, Amy 22, 23, 25, 33
Brown, "Bunk" 83
Brown, Dell 47
Brown, Enoch 78
Brown, Harold W. 122
Brown, Hugh B. 240, 249, 255,
321

Brown, James L. 85
Brown, LaVon 226
Brown, Maureen 282
Brown, Ruth Ann 274, 325

347

Brown, Samuel 25
Brown, S. Kent 331
Brown, Stan 325
Bryan, VeNae 231
Bryner, Maurine F. 210
Buchanan, James 4
Buckland, Ted 279
Buckner, LaMar 191
Buckwalter, Doyle 272
Buggert, Gustav 103
Bunny hop 231
Burton, Patty 214
Burton, William H. 236
Busath, Boyd 227
Busby, Viola 45
Bushman, Lewis 37
Bushnell, Daniel D. 238
Business Journal, The 36, 39
Buss, Frederick 182
Butler Huts 177
Butterworth, Edwin, Jr. 253, 286,
343

Butt, Newbern I. 105
BYA Student 36
BYU Bookstore 131,178,216,
263

addition to 324
BYU Chorus 280
BYU Classic 311
BYU Destiny Fund 275
BYU-Hawaii Campus 320-21
BYU Motion Picture Studio
224-25

BYU Press Club 152
BYU Security 212-13, 338
BYUtah 64
BYU Women 209-10

Caffrey, Detta 37

Cahill, Jerry 265

Cake, largest, in the world 234

Cake-baking contest 226

Calder, Hamilton 164

Caldwell, Cam 242

Call, Ben C. 46

Call, LuAnn 343

Call, Richard 253, 312

Call, Vasco 41

Call sisters 227

Cameron, J. Elliot 308, 328

Campbell, Jerry 306

Campbell, Orson 55

Campus

See Lower Campus; Upper
Campus

Campus Drive 242
"Campus Sweetheart" contest
144

Cannon, Clawson Y. 102, 114,
256

Cannon, George Q. 31, 33, 42
Cannon, Hugh 160
Cannon, Lillian H. 44, 46
Cannon, Sylvester Q. 146
Cannon Center 222, 223
Carbine, Alma 46
Card, Zina Young Williams 21,
40, 101, 220
Card stunts 254
Carillon, Centennial 345
Carillonic bell system 184
Carlson, Gary 210, 308
Carlson, Gretta 164
Carlson, Thora 164
Carr, Larry 341
Carroll, C. Hardy 70
Carroll, Elsie C. 104,117,210,
214

Carroll, Kay 231
Carroll, Peggy 337
Carter, Virgil 291, 292
Cash, Beatrice Ashworth 68
Casper, Billy 276, 298
Casper, Shirley 276
Cassidy, Sadie 39
Catalog of the Stars 318
"Catchem and Cheatem" 71
Caylor, Lynn 267

"Centennial Hymn" 346
Center Street 34, 35
Central Building 36
Central Utah Architects 259
Cesta Ties 148
Chadwick, Arthur 39
Chamberlain, William H. 85
Champaux, John 194
Chapman, Bernice 206
Chapman, Jack 297
Chatterton, Chat 167
Chatwin, Gilbert 152
Cheerleaders 227
Cheesman, Paul R. 332
Chemistry class 40, 64
Chemistry laboratory 183
Cheney, Ida Lou 211
Cheney, Louise Whitaker 41
Cherry, Alan 279
Cherry, Louise Keller 37
Chinese Club 274
Chipman, Milton 70
Chipman, Stephen L. 42, 112,
120, 146

Choules, Albert 79
Christensen, A. B. 38, 85
Christensen, Carl 102
Christensen, Craig 264, 269
Christensen, Harold 152, 293
Christensen, Homer 79
Christensen, Joe J. 329
Christensen, Leonard E. 212
Christensen, Parley A. 105,115,
131, 184

Christensen, Roy E. 277
Christensen, Ruth 210
Christiansen, Bob 270-71
Christopherson, Merrill 168
Chryst, Dianne 214
Chun, Donna 274
Church College of Hawaii 320
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-
day Saints, The
Language Training Mission
129, 130, 179, 322-23
student stakes, wards, and
branches 199,238-39
takes over BYA 33
temple 321-22, 331
Circular 24

Civilian Pilot Training 168
Clark, Albert 163
Clark, Bruce B. 316
Clark, DaCosta 253,312,314
Clark, Harold Glen 101, 175,
186, 331

Clark, Herald R. 130, 137, 224,
256

and Alpine Summer School
114, 117

and Clark Building 215
on building committees 108,
133

and Lyceum program 100, 286
Clark, James R. 345
Clark, Jodee 337
Clark, J. Reuben, Jr. 200, 201,
218

Clark, J. Reuben, Law School
318-20

dedication of 320
Clark, Mable H. 210
Clark, Maurine 153
Clark, Mrs. Herald R. 256
Clark, Rand C. 192, 193
Clark, Verl 312
Clark Building 100, 215-16
Clark Library
See Lee Library
Class of 1890 25

Class of 1891 25

Class of 1892 37

Class of 1895 38

Class of 1896 35

Class of 1904 65

Class of 1907 65

Class of 1914 70

Clawson, Rudger 98
Clayson, Ann 143
Clayson, Merrill J. 122
Cleo 123

Cloward, Myrle 209
Cloward, Wells 209
Cluff, Benjamin, Jr. 37,219
as assistant principal of BYA
24

Biography of 30-31
with faculty 21, 22, 33, 44
as president of BYA, BYU 31
as principal of BYA 25, 30-31
South American expedition 31,
49

Cluff, Cora Alexander 46
Cluff, D. Foster 44
Cluff, Freeda Barnum 70
Cluff, Harvey H. 9, 11, 23, 31
Cluff, Mary Jane John 30
Cluff Plant Science Laboratory
219

Clyde, Nellie

See DeGraff, Nellie Clyde
Cody, Millie 274
Coffman, Q. Elmo 117
Coleman, Billye 121
College Bowl Team 268-69
College Building 43, 44, 56, 131
dedication of 42
College Club 68
College Club Room 66
College Hall 140,145,153,160
assemblies at 92, 120, 126
Recital Room 139
College of Applied Science 97
College of Arts and Sciences 97
College of Biological and

Agricultural Sciences 199
College of Business 199
College of Commerce and

Business Administration 97
College of Education 97, 199
College of Engineering Sciences
and Technology 303
College of Family Living 199
College of Fine Arts 97
College of Fine Arts and

Communications 199
College of General Studies 303
College of Humanities 199
College of Industrial and

Technical Education 199
College of Nursing 199, 206-7,
334

College of Physical and

Engineering Sciences 199
College of Physical and

Mathematical Sciences 303
College of Physical Education 199
College of Religious Education
199

College of Religious Instruction
303

College of Social Sciences 199
"College Song, The" 46, 76, 346
Collett, LaRae 191
Collette, F. 145
Collette, Wayne 296
Collins, Stan 277
Colton, Byron O. 65
Colton, W. A. 47
Columbia Theater 88
Come Back, My Son 224
Commencement exercises
at Cougar Stadium 109
at Joseph Smith Building 134,
173-74

at Marriott Center 315, 333
at Provo Tabernacle 40,146-
47

at Smith Fieldhouse 185,
186-87

Commercial class 86
Commercial class of 1903 39

Commercial class of 1908 71

Commercial class of 1909 70

Commercial College 30, 38, 39
Computer Services 199, 210-11
Concert Band 140
Condie, Spencer J. 333
Congdon, Jeff 294
Conger, Lorraine 337
Connell, William 50
Cooking class 41,58

Coombs, J. M. 21
Cooper, George 160
Cope, Albert 55
Cope, Maxine J. 206, 334
Coray, Martha Jane Knowlton 9,
10, 11

Corbett, Don 156
Corps de Ballet 326
Cosic, Kresimir 339
Cosmo 212, 265
Costello, Craig 259
Cottam, Venice 144
Cottam, Walter B. 115,142
Coty, Aubert 159, 163
Cougareat 135
Cougarettes 228
Cougar Marching Band 254, 283
Cougars 123, 241
bronze 324

"Cougar Song, The" 195, 196
"Counselor at Law" 160
Court, Thomas 44
Covey, Stephen R. 261
Cowan, Jack 194
Cox, Frank 46, 47
Cox, LeRoy 121
Craig, Anna K. 33
Craig, Bob 293
Crane, Ethel 47
Crawford, Vesta Pierce 122
Crider, Zelma 231
Crocket, Earl C. 241, 282
Crockett, Webb 231
Croft, Elmo 195
Croft, Merrill 163
Cropper, Adar Taylor 68
Crosby, Jesse 79
Crow, Glynis 247
Crowley, Pearlyne 226
Crowther, Arthur F. 86
Crowther, Ted 205
Cullimore, Odessa L. 153
Culmsee, Carlton 76, 119, 132,
152, 168, 195
Cumming, Alfred 4
Cummings, Benjamin F. 174
Cummings, B. F. 103
Cummings, Paul 342
Cutler, Ethel 119
Cutler, Frank 38
Cutler, Virginia F. 299

Dairy Products Laboratory 221
Dailey, Mayhew 25
Dalton, Luella Adams 70
Dancing 231, 232, 265-66, 326
Daniels, Walt 196
Darais, Alex B. 306, 342
Darley, Roy 176
Davis, Allan 290
Davis, Fred 298
Davis, Roscoe 122
Dayley, K. Newell 344, 346
D-Dorms 177, 179, 213
Dean, C. Edwin 210
Dean, Ernest 163
Debating 122, 264, 286
Decker, Briant 164
Decker, Wayne 70
Decker, Webster 143
De Graff, Charles 65
De Graff, Elaine 143
De Graff, Nellie Clyde 65, 68
de Jong, Gerrit, Jr. 104, 176, 192
accomplishments of 101
at commencement exercises
147, 285

with faculty 103, 117, 137
and Harris Fine Arts Center
255, 256

de Jong, Mrs. Gerrit, Jr. 256
Delta Phis 148
DeMille, Cecil B. 285
Demonstrations 266-67
Dennis, Edna 39
Department of University Programs
143

Depression, Great 97, 149

348

UPB

Deseret Towers 245
Despain, Bob 268
Development Office 276
Devotionals 126, 189
Dewey, John 74
“Die Fledermaus" 326-27
Dinosaurs 242
Diplomas 345

Distinguished professors 299-300
Division of Continuing Education
120, 199

Division of Religion 97
Dixey, Bill 167
Dixon, Aldous 79
Dixon, Donald 160
Dixon, Fred (Buck) 131, 156,

159, 160, 164
Dixon, Henry Aldous 70
Dixon, Mrs. True C. 306
Dixon, Owen 290
Domestic arts class 140
Domestic Science Department 40,
41

Domina, John 152
Done, Willard 21, 22, 24
Dorius, Charles 25
Dorrity, Sam 47
Douglas, Terry 278-79
Doxey, Roger 269
Drafting class 64
Dress and grooming standards
270

Driggs, W. King 67
Duffin, Earl 70
Dunbar, William C. 16
Dunn, Hannah 45
Dunn, Loren 293
Dunyon, J. W. 37
Dursteler, Darlene 282
Dusenberry, Ida Smoot 44, 68,

85, 104

Dusenberry, Jennie 45
Dusenberry, Warren Newton 5,

6, 7-8

first principal of BYA 9
Dusenberry, Wilson Howard 5, 6,
9, 25, 61, 345
Dyer, William G. 239
Dyreng, Margaret 265

Eakins, Jim 294
Eastmond, Elbert H. 68, 85, 89,
103

Eastmond, John 256
Eastmond, Mrs. Elbert H. 209,
256

Echols, Karen S. 345
Eddington, Roslyn 153
Education Building 31, 97, 110,
193, 269

Internet Archive Audio

Featured

Top

Images

Featured

Top

Software

Featured

Top

Texts

Featured

Top

Video

Featured

Top

Mobile Apps

Browser Extensions

Archive-It Subscription

Save Page Now

Full text of "Brigham Young University : 1,000 views of 100 years"

See other formats